Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk w...
Everyone was equal there. Men, women, children, and people you couldn’t say what they were. All the various skin tones, and wherever you came from before, it didn’t matter. In this new place you made...
Every astronomer loves the stars.
Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.
Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. —Ambrose Bierc...
But we were talking about economics? John said. But this is economics, don’t you see, this is our eco-economics! Everyone should make their living, so to speak, based on a calculation of their real co...
But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages,
But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. And analogies w...
At this point justice and revenge are the same thing! Justice for people would be revenge on the oligarchs.
Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso
Arabic is learning, but Persian is sugar.
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
A pinch of mother is worth a pack of shaman.
A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that shortcuts a full analysis in order to choose quickly an option that appears to work in the situation immediately at hand. They are often used by humans.
The passenger compartment of this one goes right to the moon. The booster stage will come back down after your launch and land right over there. She pointed across the concrete
Capital, having considerably more liquidity than water, slid
A collection that included, among other items, an Allen wrench set, some pliers, a power drill, several clamps, some hacksaws, an impact-wrench set, a brace of cold-tolerant bungie cords, assorted fil...
[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior