Science is like the best athlete in gym class — nobody really likes him, but everybody wants him on his team.
Jul 182022
Jul 152022
People are divided less by what they believe than by how intensely they believe it.
Jul 142022
We are subject, when we change our mind, to exactly the same errors as when we make it up in the first place.
Jul 132022
Everyone believes in natural ability, except the naturally able.
Jul 122022
Just about every motive for human action sounds better than making money, and turns out worse.
Jul 112022
A salesman, unlike a psychology professor, must understand psychology.
Jul 082022
Anyone can look up anything; only what you know is truly at your disposal.
Jul 072022
We are all usufructs now.
Jul 062022
Public acknowledgement of error is almost entirely for show. It has no point unless you reexamine the habits of thought that produced the error, which is best done in private.
Jul 052022
We are apt to forget, though history at intervals reminds us, how far hypocrisy is to be preferred to sincere, unaffected villainy.