A Well Turned Phrase

Apology

Before I do that, I apologize to my readers lest by syllable or even letter I offend against grammatical usage, a matter in which I am far from being expert.

— Gregory of Tours

Taste is unconscious competence

Where whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I am too old for much hope. Maybe none. It is too long since I awoke and rejoiced in the pleasures that were awaiting on the day ahead. It is a pity that the world must pay for the frustrations and bitterness of those whose girlfriends had to be recruited from Mrs Palm’s complaisant family of daughters, for whose single-handed kindnesses slang

 So AI may have its uses and I and millions of others may benefit therefrom. Just a pity it’s so shamelessly based on larceny and when re-used, like a high-priced item sold to the receiver, loses so much of its value.

— Jonathon Green

On AI

How does some plagiarism machine, with no innate understanding of what it sees, make choices and offer anything useful.

— Jonathon Green

Yet be warned, Thiel, Andressen, Altman and the rest of the President’s tech-bro toches-lekkers, who, like nerds before jocks must grovel to avoid the humiliating pantsing and who, if not now then soon, will still get bare-assed come what may. Your lives may resemble an unthinkably bloated version of the great Nigel Molesworth’s nominally

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

— Pliny the Younger