Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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Today, we tend to think of economic and racial egalitarianism as closely yoked causes. One hundred years ago, this was far from the case. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of those Americans most skeptical of corporate power were also the most hostile to racial equality, while those Americans who most adamantly rejected economic reform hoped to mobilize racial minorities as allies.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The internet is a network of networks. Internet exchanges are the portals where lots of those networks are linked to each other; switches connect devices within these networks. As the internet has grown, exchanges and their switches have become more numerous and vastly more impressive, allowing levels of performance that would have been unthinkable using old technology.
~ Abby Bertics via The Economist
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Campus Life at the
University of Maine
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One of the great promises of artificial intelligence is that it will open new frontiers of creative expression—but so far, it is most famous for impersonating the artists we already have.
~ Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic
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