27 Quotes by John Derbyshire

I never ponder counterfactuals.

Puritans don’t laugh – except at the sight of a burning witch.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency – which we mostly resist – towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

A very civilized thing, glass – almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.

It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.

A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone’s overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.

If you’re not thinking about numbers, you’re probably not thinking.