All Lies & Jests

Semiramis Pilar

A shortfall of evidence is not evidence of a shortfall.

Brynjolfsson (1993), on the Productivity Paradox

The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

—Milan Kundera, Ignorance (via consistently-misimagined)