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A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.

(which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

I never ponder counterfactuals.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.