Many a reputation has been made by dying at just the right time.
Oct 112022
Oct 102022
Parody is the insincerest form of flattery.
Oct 072022
A story of only exciting parts is like a wardrobe of only exciting garments.
Oct 062022
When one relative embezzles from another, it’s always the brother-in-law — just close enough for nepotism, just distant enough that he can’t be entirely trusted.
Oct 052022
Criticism, even good criticism, helps you see what the critic describes and hinders you from seeing anything else.
Oct 042022
The biggest problems are small problems, iterated indefinitely.
Oct 032022
Even public relations suffers from science-envy: it is no accident that Relativity came between Barnum and Bernays.
Sep 302022
The facts I remember are too good to check.
Sep 292022
At high stakes one must forget them.
Sep 282022
Moral philosophy warns us sternly against deriving ought from is, when it is far more common, and pernicious, to derive is from ought.