Here is a collection of various sayings and musings I have come up with in the course of my ramblings. Updated now and again.
One of the keys to growing employment in America again: If you think, "That job is terrible." Don't follow that with the thought, "If I think it's terrible, no one should be able to do that job. It should not be allowed to exist."
If you don't want someone doing a particular commercial activity in your community don't pay them to do it.
Social Justice is a good intention. Economic growth is a good result. I'm much happier with good results than good intentions.
With any new concept the destructive form is always easier, cheaper, simpler and quicker to make than the constructive form.
I don't see evil people in the world, I see people driven the wrong way by what they deeply believe is right.
In the world of the economy, competition is like evolution and central planning is like Intelligent Design.
Since terrorism is advertising, the most effective way to fight terrorism is not to buy the product. Do that by doing your business as usual.
[Cheering with arms in the air.]
SUPPORT GREEN WITH GUILT!!
Collectivism is alive and thriving in the contemporary public school environment.
Begging is a form of entertainment, perhaps the earliest form of it.
Prescience makes perfect.
To measure material wealth, look at both what people have and how well they are maintaining it.
Mother Nature says, "Living is always a privilege, never a right."
A person is a winner in life when they do two things: spread their genes and spread their ideas.
Recessions are a time of dream changing. When I was growing up it was unions versus management. Now it is unions versus taxpayers.
It was a thankless job. And, in the end, no one thanked him for doing it.
One sign of an over-regulated industry: When the bill you get for services rendered is an arm-long itemized list.
Some people want to live in a Workers' Paradise. I prefer living in a Customers' Paradise.
When your climate science becomes religion, your climate cures will be as effective as sacrificing goats was in Ancient Rome: Some people will sleep better at nights, but the effect on saving the world will be random.
Efficiency is Green, effectiveness is even Greener.
An economic recession is a time for dream changing.
The relation between Newton's work and Einstein's work:
Newton described the real world well, Einstein described it better.
Americans need to be diligent about protecting enfranchisement, not borders.
The essence of terrorism is violence for TV new's sake.
Men and women are two different species sharing the same gene pool.
Standards makers are standards breakers.
If you can't do, teach. If you can't teach, do TV news.
Q: Why can humans in their late teens and early twenties work all day and party all night, while older adults and children scratch their heads at where all that endurance comes from?
A: It's metabolism. Children and young adults have a metabolism set to full throttle, but children are using a big chunk of that to grow. Young adults are finished growing, and their metabolism hasn't slowed down to adult levels yet.
One of the big changes advancing civilization brings to a community is widening the scope of who its members cooperate with.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and teachers are from Planet Pluto.
If you think it's hard to know what a woman will be like as your wife, think how hard it is to know what a woman will be like as your ex-wife.
It's easier to change a plan than make one. (So, before you start a project, make a plan, even a bad one.)
Don't invoke conspiracy when simple incompetence can explain what happens.
Technology can give back what it takes away [in ecological and cultural damage], but poverty plays for keeps.
Prosperity pays for ecology.
How do you insult a shape changer?
Start singing, "I love you just the way you are."
Question:
If "light matter" is the matter in the universe that is affected by both gravity and light. And if "dark matter" is the matter in the universe that is affected by gravity but not light. What do you call matter in the universe that is not affected by gravity or light?
Answer: Don't Matter
You call it "don't matter" because whatever it is, it don't matter. If something in our universe affects neither light nor gravity, it makes absolutely no difference to what happens in the observable part of our universe.
There is a difference between legality and morality. But Americans are rarely taught that difference in school, so we support legislating morality and that is expensive because it doesn't work well.
The 2009 "AIG Bonus Rage" was like yelling at firefighters working a blazing inferno, "If you lard-asses had gotten here sooner, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
Umm... not such a good idea.
If ordinary people look like they are doing strange things to you, you haven't observed them closely enough to see the logic underlying their actions.
Q: How high should the fence around a house be?
A: Three feet high. People who respect fences will respect it, but can get over it if they see a need to help inside. People who don't respect fences will climb the fence if it's three, six or nine feet high.
Statement: "The Bible is not a history book or a science book, it is a book of moral instruction."
Roger's Thought: A book of moral instruction based on bad science and bad history. Hmm... It's a good thing it's divinely inspired!