I don’t like eloquence. If it isn’t effective enough to pierce your hide, it’s tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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An editor—especially a brilliant one, as I’ve been lucky to have—pushes against your ideas, hones your writing, demands that you express yourself with the utmost clarity.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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A key characteristic of the engineering culture is that the individual engineer’s commitment is to technical challenge rather than to a given company. There is no intrinsic loyalty to an employer as such. An employer is good only for providing the sandbox in which to play. If there is no challenge or if resources fail to be provided, the engineer will seek employment elsewhere.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Deception is the knowledge of kings.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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It is, after all, unlikely that Rush Limbaugh always feels as jaunty and confident as he seems on the air, or that Howard Stern really is deeply fascinated by porn starlets every waking minute of the day. But a host’s persona is not the same as outright acting. For the most part, it’s probably more like the way we are all slightly different with some people than we are with others.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at the
University of Nottingham
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Only a country’s most vital interests justify its embarking on war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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