Yesterday's Brilliance, Tomorrow's Embarrassment |
Yesterday's brilliant visionis today's conventional wisdomis tomorrow's embarrassing fallacy.The seven deadly sins are an embarrassment to every modern human. Each of us learns the hard way that thes...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:31:00 GMT |
On Overpopulation |
To say overpopulation is a problem for mankind is like saying air is to blame for your cough. All correctness and no help. Worse than blaming gravity for a plane crash, it's like blaming p...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:42:00 GMT |
On Art |
Are people who communicate only through their art the culmination of civilization, or merely the start? Maybe the most interesting thing a civilization does is start the next one. So it's ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:47:00 GMT |
On Whining And Complaining |
The only people I believe have any right to whine never do because it requires breathing, and they don't do that any more. If you can fog up a spoon you've already won the greatest game ever pla...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:19:00 GMT |
On High Aims and Elbows |
High aims should be indirect. Meet your courage while immersed in some worthy, tangible purpose. Seek true love's accidental knock to interrupt your doing what would amuse her. Write...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:00 GMT |
On Success First |
Success is lonely, unnatural, and very strange. It's a bleak and livid feeling to see something no one else can see. That confirms at least that no amount of preparation could be enough, a...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:14:00 GMT |
On Command |
Just because the opportunities for control are small we should not shrink from taking command. A captain steers a storm-tossed ship with a tiny fraction of the ergs at play, by knowing where and...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:39:00 GMT |
On Thinking and Talking |
Thinking and talking are the worst ways to understand, except for all those other ways I have tried from time to time.
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:26:00 GMT |
On Laughing At |
Humor at someone else's expense can only be funny if at least a little true. And the victim can only be wounded for the same reason.
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:59:00 GMT |
On Customers, Children and Women |
Customers, like children, like women,will eventually (you should prepare yourself) seem completely insane.They are best when loved to the full,second best avoided entirely,and there should be no lasti...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 23:25:00 GMT |
