If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.
As the short way to evil is to try to look good, so the short way to stupid is to try to look clever.
The money is always for something, but the service often differs from the job description.
Any remotely promising new idea will promptly be seized on to explain everything.
The eternal Manichean struggle is between not good and evil, but sloth and industry.
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Money, n. Crystallized desire.
It is an insult to be paid by the word.
You never get a good piece of music stuck in your head, just an idiotically catchy pop song or advertising jingle; and ideas work the same way.