People will only tell the truth when they think they can get away with it For example, perjury laws only wor… by publicly threatening jail time
The kingdom of heaven is like a tr… where gentlemen may remove their h… while all others must
Aristocracy failed because it couldn’t keep some of the people happy all of the time Democracy is failing because
Anselm’s ontological proof fails at proving the existence of God; there is no way around a leap of f… Instead, it proves that human bein… are incapable of accessing God’s m…
I can never remember street names navigating strictly by landmarks taking left turns just past abandoned doughnut shops impugning me to keep my marriage
A desire Needn’t ever be fulfilled Because in desire I have all That I will ever need
Counterintuitively AI’s two primary tasks– No one will ever get bored And Nothing will ever happen–
Losing what you never had is only possible when you look for it exactly where it never was
Don’t talk to strangers; Sing with them
Afraid that everything I wanted was nothing to write home about I was left with nothing to write home about
In the west Since we can’t control time We just buy more time An approach used elsewhere With equally mixed results
At work They know me by my secret identity The mild-mannered Clark Kent But at home with my family I can relax and let them see the r…
In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help
If you’ve been put in an impossibl… Consider the possibility that you Have been asked to do the impossib… And that a good leader Would never ask you to do
People don’t generally like instru… because music without words is just math come alive Adding words to music takes it from counting time