Two Conceptions of Taste (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good vis... See more

Good taste : taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.