Quotations

'A friend writes: “These people who say that King Charles “has not handled this well,” that he’s “weak,” that the whole Monarchy must now be questioned…what planet are they on? What are they smoking? Compared to what? The USA, where literally no one (except for a British woman) has yet been arrested or faced any consequences whatsoever? The UK Labour Party, which coddled Peter Mandelson for years? Tony Blair, who appointed Andrew as Trade Envoy despite his own brother then-Prince Charles’s opposition? I am so tired of the media’s hysterical focus on Andrew. Andrew Andrew Andrew, OK but who else? Was Epstein a major criminal enterprise with many culprits or not? Or is it just an excuse for the media to bash the Monarchy? When do we get to see politicians, presidents, or other powerful men fall? Anyone? When will the existence of republics be questioned? Anyway, enough venting, I’m in Mexico and it’s lovely. God Save the King.'" Charles A. Coulombe.

"The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.” Elon Musk expresses a good thought in a naughty world.

"America is a central pillar that holds up the Western civilization. And if that pillar falls, everything falls. I bought Twitter because I felt like the civilizational risk had to be addressed. If America is not strong, then what do businesses matter?" Elon Musk

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency”. Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe 

"He was interred in the common cemetery near the Hôtel Dieu. A detachment of the burgher guard was obliged to turn out to protect the interment from the violence of the Catholic mob of Lyons, barbarized by the efforts of the religious confraternities. He was pursued beyond the grave by the especial hatred of the Catholic world. Of this a remarkable example has been perpetuated. It is not uncommon to find copies of the Thesaurus in our libraries, in which the name 'Henricus Stephanus' has been carefully obliterated from the title-page and preface. A copy of the Pindar has been found in Spain, in the cover of which are written these words: 'H. Stephanus, autor damnatus, opus tamen hoc permissum.' And M. Renouard had a copy of the De Latinitate, etc., in which the author's name was erased wherever it occurred. In a copy of the Thesaurus in our possession, not only is the author's name pasted over, but where the name of Queen Elizabeth occurs in the dedication, it has been altered with a pen into 'Belsabeth.'" Mark Pattison on Henri Estienne, quoted on his blog by Michael Gilleland