John Allen Paulos's Blog, page 9

JohnAllenPaulos: http://huff.to/cUUGcr Apropos CNN's Rick Sanchez: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

JohnAllenPaulos: http://huff.to/cUUGcr Apropos CNN's Rick Sanchez: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf That wouldn't erase tweets and other netsam online.

JohnAllenPaulos: @snarkyxanf That wouldn't erase tweets and other netsam online.

JohnAllenPaulos: @ITChE Oh no. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: @ITChE Oh no. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: @divbyzero @peterflom Words blowing away in the wind do have more emotional impact than a hard drive crashing! Burning pages even more.

JohnAllenPaulos: @divbyzero @peterflom Words blowing away in the wind do have more emotional impact than a hard drive crashing! Burning pages even more.

JohnAllenPaulos: Kafka's futile directive to burn his papers would've been even more futile in the digital age: http://bit.ly/cjXGfh

JohnAllenPaulos: Kafka's futile directive to burn his papers would've been even more futile in the digital age: http://bit.ly/cjXGfh

JohnAllenPaulos: This argument is silly. Nothing silly is weighty. Everything valid is weighty. So this argument isn't valid. ... Yet it is.

JohnAllenPaulos: This argument is silly. Nothing silly is weighty. Everything valid is weighty. So this argument isn't valid. ... Yet it is.

JohnAllenPaulos: NYer piece by Nicholas Lemann (not online) is a balanced appraisal of the current narrative that the US educational system is broken.

JohnAllenPaulos: NYer piece by Nicholas Lemann (not online) is a balanced appraisal of the current narrative that the US educational system is broken.

JohnAllenPaulos: To call this a fearsome attack on privacy is not whining: http://bit.ly/b7KEcl

JohnAllenPaulos: To call this a fearsome attack on privacy is not whining: http://bit.ly/b7KEcl

JohnAllenPaulos: @tunkuv and the opposition Kim-onos

JohnAllenPaulos: @tunkuv and the opposition Kim-onos

JohnAllenPaulos: @quintic I doubt that the deviations from uniformity are too great.

JohnAllenPaulos: @quintic I doubt that the deviations from uniformity are too great.