Everything – Page 61 – A book of aphorisms
Sep 102021
 

To choose a side of history is to excuse implicitly the atrocities committed in its name.

Sep 092021
 

The modern corporation has turned business — a glamorous pursuit, full of intrigue, danger, and deceit — into bureaucratic drudgery. This is its unpardonable sin.

Sep 082021
 

When there are two opposed opinions, each widely held, the truth generally lies on a large ellipse with those two points as the foci.

Sep 062021
 

Evil is the officer corps in the army of stupid.

Sep 032021
 

There are so many ways to go wrong that every well-made thing is a miracle, to be regarded with reverence, even awe.

Sep 022021
 

Good, like happiness, is best achieved by indirection.

Sep 012021
 

As robots become more like humans, so humans become more like robots.