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HALF_APHORISMS
January 19, 2004
Theory by all means,
but practice first. So why am I
writing
aphorisms?
HOMILETICS
Freedom to be normal
isn't really freedom.
Tolerance of trivial
differences is not a GREENISH-TINGE
trivial issue.
Determining which
difference makes
a difference is
non-trivial.
Always act like you belong
there, even if you're getting
ready to jump out of the way.
A people determined to live like
animals will die like animals. (I must've
stolen this
from some-
where.
Don't like
it much,
either.)
(January 10, 2006)
The Maginot line forms on the right.
(March 25, 2006)
Like minds think gratingly.
(April 6, 2003)
The hair dye's always redder on
the woman at the other table...
(February 6, 2003)
Do I repeat myself?
Very well, I repeat myself.
I contain multitudes
(pedants, fanatics, amnesiacs...).
Here stands a man who made
himself an idiot in hopes
of becoming a savant...
(July 23, 2004)
Don't be afraid to work backwards.
Create something to
fit a good title.
THE_IRON_KEY
Do something new
to fill a gap
between existing
parts.
(September 12, 2005 -
May 28, 2007)
For every attempt at generalizing a correct rule,
someone will find the wrong way to follow it.
(June 27, 2007)
"I don't think there are
very many consumers left."
-- Bruce Sterling
("Web 2.0" talk)
An alternate "broken-window theory":
If you break *enough* windows,
they'll have to give up on the Similar to the
"broken-window theory". Bush/Cheney
strategy of
outrage fatigue.
(January 2007)
Don't plan on suddenly
becoming someone else.
You're what you've got to
work with. So now what?
(December 1, 2007)
Demanding politeness is never polite.
Everything I know about playing pool,
I learned from Scientific American. (~1990)
(I suck at playing pool.)
October 21, 2007
The fault lies not in
our mechanisms, but --
"We've all got to be our
own editors now."
-- caller to "Puzzling Evidence",
KPFA, October 26, 2007
(early 2008)
If you're stuck with madness
you might as well presume
there's method in it.
Or that a method can
be created using it.
(June 1. 2008)
An intelligent person can usually
find a better way of doing anything,
including being stupid.
(March 24, 2009)
It is easier to create complexity
than it is to remove it.
Human projects are anti-entropic?
Unless "complexity" is a euphemism
for "chaos".
January 23, 2010
If necessity is the mother of invention,
then it's good to have necessities.
Or to be short on
the necessities?
February 12, 2010
Battle not with monsters,
lest ye turn them into human beings.
(And then you have real problems.)
February 20, 2010
Choose the least obvious thing that works.
March 1, 2010
Well _______ is half-baked.
(A quarter-aphorism.)
overrun
spun
braked, I think:
Well braked is half-baked.
Fri Mar 12 18:11:43 2010
"The Poet's Choice" might be
named "The Standards Body's Choice"
Sat May 1 20:37:04 2010
The amount of money and time expended on
schemes intended to save both is awe-inspiring
to contemplate.
Tue Oct 12 21:18:32 2010
Take it seriously.
But seriously, folks.
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