A new idea is almost always false, and persecuted with special zeal when it happens to be true.
When distinguished people try to be common, common people no longer try to be distinguished.
Our species owes its continued survival to the endowment effect.
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
One sympathizes more and more with people as one knows them better, then less and less as one knows them better still.
Journalism enjoyed a unique sunlit holiday of public trust, beginning with Murrow and ending with Woodward and Bernstein, which evokes intense nostalgia in journalists of a certain age. The historical norm, to which we have now reverted, is No Confidence Whatsoever.
In sane times prizes are useless. They become useful in mad times, as negative indicators.
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
Dog-whistling, n. The theory that demagogues communicate esoterically.
What I cannot brook is agreement.