Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you already believe and everything that you know. The other thing is that you stay flexible enough or curious enough and maybe unsure of yourself enough, or may be you are more sure of yourself - I don't know which it is - that the new things that come in keep reforming your world view.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.