Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.