“Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.

“We completely fell into the “if you build it, they will come” trap. We built it. Nobody came.

“Sometimes I think that they call them Whitepapers because you’re getting snowed.

“The name “Australia” is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning “Southern”. Legends of an “unknown land of the south” (terra australis incognita) dating back to Roman times were commonplace in mediæval geography..

“To clarify, add detail.

Clutter is not an attribute of information but a failure of design.

“There are two separate social hierarchies, one based on wealth (desperate, nervous, coasting) and one on education (reads nothing, reads Time, reads The Economist). The two used to be tied together because only the rich could afford education. In the 20th century they drifted apart. The interesting question is whether they will converge again, not because wealth causes education, but because education causes wealth.

“The media is not ideologically driven but conflict-driven.

“The short head will be human, the fat middle social, and the long tail algorithmic.

“I don’t see much difference between bossing my kid around academically and bossing him around the way I do about everything else.