Easy tasks are easier than they look, and hard ones are much, much harder.
Oct 102023
Oct 092023
We say life imitates art because art is how we see life.
Oct 062023
First we pretend, then we demand that others pretend, and finally we punish them for not pretending.
Oct 052023
Nothing is off the record except what you don’t say.
Oct 042023
An irreducible minimum of undesirables is always with us, and the sole policy question, in many guises, is how to herd them.
Oct 032023
That there is no difference, in practice, between stupid and evil is only an instance of the more general principle that there is none between can’t and won’t.
Oct 022023
We imagine that we have absorbed Einstein when we have yet to come to grips with Maxwell.
Sep 292023
There is news today, and still you are the same.
Sep 282023
A name can confirm understanding, or confound it, but never confer it.
Sep 272023
The enduring lessons of the First World War are how not to fight a war and why not to fight one.