Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work [...]
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you were meant to be. — The Beatles
Genuine anger requires time, reflection, and something heavy that balances well in your hand. — Kate@Small Dead Animals.
Polls are not data; polls are stories people tell about their data. — “Slartibartfast”
“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself [...]
If someone finds ways to exclude any source of possibly disconfirming evidence from the realm of credible authorities, they are probably a crank. — Megan McArdle Okay, I started out calling it Megan’s Law. I thought it sounded familiar.
That profound imaginative connection with the great void is one of the things that separates science fiction writers and fans from the unimaginative plodding mass of humanity. —John Derbyshire
A new piece at Pajamas Media. Update: Turns out Megan McArdle (Megan, honey, call me) posted on more or less the same topic today, yielding today’s Quote of the Day: I’m persistently disturbed by the notion that most of our fellow citizens are intellectual children who need to be forced to do what is good [...]
We are forever imagining that something new — a new generation, a new technology, a new movement — will finally make people no longer power-hungry, indiscriminately horny, vain, or corrupt. That hope is always disappointed. — Annie Gottlieb
This is something [talk radio] supporters are likely to forget … when they have to come out of their bunkers and deal with the rest of us. They think we’re RINOs and DINOs, but we’re just Americans doing our normal thing and trying to figure things out. — Roger L. Simon
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