You Judge A Society By The Decency

I Suspect That The Peer-review System Carries A Good Part Of Blame For The Fact That Something Like Sixty Percent Or More Of Journal Articles Are Never Quoted (which Means Leaving No Trace On Our Joint Scholarly Pursuits), And (in My Reception At Any Rate) The "learned Journals" (with A Few Miraculous Exceptions That Entail, Prominently, Tcs) Ooze Monumental Boredom.

Now People Are Worried Not About The Prospects Of Buying New Things, But About How To Pay For The Things They Bought Yesterday, A Year Ago Or Years Before. It Is, As Americans Like To Say, "a Wholly Different Kind Of Ball-game".

The Risk Of The Holocaust Is Not That It Will Be Forgotten, But That It Will Be Embalmed And Surrounded By Monuments And Used To Absolve All Future Sins.

The Task Is To Keep The Lost Opportunities Of The Past Alive.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.