The Bed of Procrustes

Usually, what we call a “good listener” is someone with skillfully polished indifference.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

You remember emails you sent that were not answered better than emails that you did not answer.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.

What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that people are far more interesting in what they don’t say about themselves.