For sailors, anything less than a 100% success rate is unacceptable.
Aphorism No. 535
Tacit agreements are future arguments.
Aphorism No. 534
A trip of 14 days is rarely two times better than one of seven.
Aphorism No. 533
It’s physically impossible to read philosophy without smoking a cigarette. Ergo, philosophy can kill you.
Aphorism No. 532
Reading poetry is like walking along the circular streets of someone else’s imagination — but only if other people’s brains are similar to Parisian boulevards and only if reading is similar to moving one’s legs.
Aphorism No. 531
The tourist travels perpetually into the past. The flâneur wanders forward with the present into the future.
Aphorism No. 530
Life is the process through which we learn what we already know.
Aphorism No. 529
Fail small, fail fast, and fail often.
Aphorism No. 528
A fantasy is a dream with no chance of becoming reality.
Aphorism No. 527
A guideline is not a hard line.