Jonathan's Blog

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

What I did was assume on a few what it was listed because on knew who they were, so I just transferred that information. The what it should be is accurate.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Lawmaking uses "natural language". Now look how complex and difficult to understand ALL laws are. You still need a lawyer just to understand them. And a team of very smart people to create them. Making programs look like laws will be a disaster.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

I don't think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, our ties with the Saudi family and our military bases in Saudi Arabia. You know why I think that? Because that's what he fucking said!

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

...the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

I'm looking to virally monetize your eyeballs by selling them for transplants.