“Are you attacking my reputation?” “No, I’m just commenting on how low it is.”

An exchange I had the privilege of witnessing between two of my co-workers some years back.

“You may come to ask yourself, ‘What should I do today?’ in a manner that means ‘How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?’”

Jordan Peterson on Instagram (quoting himself and all upper-case in the post) November 11 2020

“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”

Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs are testing their employees while the state is not testing you teaches a lesson about howmarkets work and governments don’t.

In my latest National Post column I warn that the robots are coming faster than you think and CGI and AI spell big trouble.

“You recall that Timothy was warned by St. Paul that anyone who neglects to provide for his own house (meaning his own family) has disowned the faith and is ‘worse than an infidel.’”

Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland, quoted in Fr. James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty

“‘An angry man,’ said Confucius, ‘is always full of poison.’”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“One good thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.”

Variously attributed online including anonymously.