The purveyor of a cure does not, unless he is a madman, spread the ill; but he can scarcely help spreading belief in it.
Nov 172021
Nov 162021
That warm, fuzzy feeling when you know you have done right? Nothing is to be trusted less.
Nov 152021
For heresy, like murder, there is no statute of limitations — not even centuries.
Nov 122021
You can’t convince people that ugliness is beautiful. You can, however, convince them that it is bold, inspiring, visionary, unique, searching, thought-provoking, evocative, and unconventional.
Nov 112021
School inculcates the bad habit of finishing books, as if they were assignments.
Nov 102021
Never use five words where none will do.
Nov 092021
Our thoughts run in loops, which we can hope only to make as long and deeply nested as possible.
Nov 082021
Punishment must be harsh when it is neither swift nor sure.
Nov 052021
We are apt to imagine software as scaling indefinitely, which it does not, because we think of it as a form of writing, which does.
Nov 042021
An idea traces its influence not from its origin, which is lost in time, but from the point when it becomes inescapable.