Ockham's razor Ockham's razor is a principle that favors simplicity, parsimony, and succinctness. It follows: if we are to accept that the simplest explanations are always more favorable than the complex, yet e…
"Work, worry, toil and trouble are indeed the lot of almost all men their whole life long. And yet if every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pass the time? Imagin…
“Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world,people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the facescoming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Carsrun silently on the autoba…
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe." - Le Corbusier, The Bettmann Archives
"The young man locked the door and turned to the girl. She was standing facing him in a defiant pose with insolent sensuality in her eyes. He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the famil…
"That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the b…