In a large organization it is impossible to act alone, and every corporate and governmental imbecility that comes to your attention has been vetted by several layers of imbeciles.
Oct 302020
Oct 292020
Many people are so bored and unhappy that they welcome a personal disaster, as a change, and especially a social disaster, as a change in which others will suffer as well.
Oct 282020
There is an especially stubborn class of imbeciles, whose good grades and fluid prose induce them to regard the idea that they could be imbeciles as self-evidently absurd.
Oct 272020
The darkest hour is just before it all goes black for good.
Oct 262020
It requires moderately high intelligence to be wrong about everything.
Oct 232020
You only get so many chances to keep your mouth shut.
Oct 222020
A man at philosophy is like a cat up a tree: he can think his way into a lot more trouble than he can think his way out of.
Oct 212020
There are people who understand the power of speech, and people who oppose restrictions on speech, but rarely the same people.
Oct 202020
An abrasive personality may profit a thinker; it certifies for his followers that they care for the ideas and nothing else.
Oct 192020
Fashion can be beautiful, but always by accident, and never for long.