- All problems are technical, but many techniques are inadequate. # 7 hours ago
- Tardiness is the rudeness of kings, and punctuality is the necessary politeness of their subjects. # 17 hours ago
- An aphorism requires assembly but not instructions. (After @EricRWeinstein.) # 17 hours ago
- "Revisionists can't win -- that's not surprising/ For if they win it isn't called revising." --Robert Conquest # 2010/09/01
- Things always get worse before they get worse still. # 2010/08/31
- Youth is lost like money -- gradually, then suddenly. # 2010/08/30
- Regulation exists to manufacture non-compliance. # 2010/08/30
- The cultural norm always precedes the psychological theory that is eventually invoked to justify it. # 2010/08/28
- Influence is plagiarism spread thin. # 2010/08/27
- Nothing is more vulgar than a horror of vulgarity. # 2010/08/27
- @jaideepd Amis is a shrewd critic, especially on prose style, and I agree with him here as I usually do. # 2010/08/27
- @EricRWeinstein My original version ran "Much as I admire @EricRWeinstein, his enthusiasm..." but I ran out of space. # 2010/08/25
- Enthusiasm for Kung Fu Panda is one of those mild bouts of insanity visited on adults who have to sit through a lot of stuff for children. # 2010/08/25
- Is there a more irritating piece of everyday technology than the umbrella? # 2010/08/25
- @colinmarshall Surely residents of Santa Barbara are Santa Barbarians. # 2010/08/23
- The hard sciences killed God, natural selection buried Him, variance drove a silver stake through His heart, and yet He will not die. # 2010/08/23
- @benatlas Exactly. But as problems go one prefers the latter. # 2010/08/23
- The conversational monopolist ends up a monopsonist. # 2010/08/23
- Tears are shed only over mediocrity: great art leaves one dry-eyed. # 2010/08/22
- @benatlas On militarizing language the essential book is Klemperer's The Language of the Third Reich. It helps if you know German. # 2010/08/22
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