If the bridge has no value, why waste matches?

Turnabout isn't fair play - it's a matter of osmosis.

Life isn't a box of chocolates. It's cheese experimentation. Think of how many monks died to give us Blue Cheese.

TANSTAAFL. As a meal, dinner is more expensive and lends to the context of price of breakfast which can be exceedingly cheap or expensive.

Where the brain fails to understand the heart, we use the word 'love'.

The platform of any politician is built on the anticipation of the best intentions of the majority of the electorate. The platform of a leader is made of symbiotic loyalty.

People think that their worth is what they have, what they obtain. That's just what is consumed. The true worth of a person, a people, a culture, a society... is what is left behind. And how long they leave it for.

The Internet will always be as splintered as the humanity that 'share' it.

Think on how many people carry their broken swords unknowingly. (Narsil reference; reference book - not movie.)

The first time I stepped in on someone's behalf, I got knocked in the head with a baseball bat. You'd think I would remember that, but I have an advantage: I've had worse than many have to offer and I know it. I've also learned to avoid getting knocked too often. Maybe I should open a bat franchise?

Never reward negative behavior. Tolerance is all well and good, but tolerance does not mean rewarding the negative behavior. That's called reinforcement.

The world can be a beautiful place. Sometimes you just have to open your eyes to see it. More often, it seems, you have to close your eyes to see it.

There has to be a better metric for quality of life other than how much money is collected or spent to improve it.

Clarity is a trap that prevents us from greater clarity. If you meet the Buddha, you're supposed to kill the Buddha. Same thing in everything.

If people come to you to solve problems, they see you have worth. But if they choose not to give you something for your worth, they are worthless. But being worthless does not mean that they aren't worth helping. Everything is connected.

Governments might spend more intelligently on education if it came in an economy size that fits everyone... including the people who are running the government.

Truth isn't a scalar quantity. It's a vector quantity. Some truths have more depth than others. Maybe we forget that in our largely Boolean inspired society.

"Nation-states seek smart mobs. Please send collective CV and group photo to {insert address here}. Medical insurance qualification required."

Cohesion is when like particles are attracted to one another. Adhesion is when unlike particles are attracted to each other. Most of present systems are frameworks. The more contents in the system, the more adhesive quality the framework needs - stickiness. And if the structure of the system is more important than the contents of the system, cohesion plays a larger role. So maybe the problem with governments is that they are more cohesive than they should be and less adhesive than they have to be with respect to the society that is allegedly being represented.

How come no one has written, "Chicken Soup for the Smart Mob"? Perhaps marketing research showed they preferred beer and Faux News over Chicken Soup?

Vegetarians sometime ask me to not meat around them. The right answer is whether they mind not eating vegetables around you. The responses are always amusing.

Seriously, who put these people in charge? Collective intelligence? Smart mobs? Democracy?