Monday, December 26, 2005

D Generation

A great way to degenerate and corrupt people would be to get them to waste as much time as possible on passive forms of amusement and other ways of just getting the time to go by as quickly as possible.

Metalogical Moment

Inference assumes a universal necessity across objects.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Debate & Knowledge

It is not merely inevitable that we are different and have different views. Truth emerges from the clash of opinion.

The Benevolence of Opportunity

She smiled her last smile at so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand, last line of We The Living

Simplicity

Seek simplicity, and avoid it.

Seneca

The Truth Hurts

The truth hurts us now, but makes us wiser in the end.

Brand Blanshard

Ignorance and History

Ignorant people ask questions the wise answered a thousand years ago.

Seneca