The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

A saying by the brothers Geoff and Vince Graham summarizes the ludicrousness of scale-free political universalism. I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

A sign of development for a country is in the lack of prestige for government officials.