Technology Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

[Einstein] said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!

Natural selection does not positively produce anything. It only eliminates, or tends to eliminate, whatever is not competitive.

[You] shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

Let Republicans be mindful of their heritage. It was moral conviction—and the courage to act on moral conviction—that gave birth to the Republican Party and made it grand. Now it is old but need not be any less grand.

Just as pragmatism is unpragmatic and empiricism is not empirical, rationalism is irrational. You can’t prove that truth is only what can be proved.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.

Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.

Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it.

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

A person who denies even one article of our faith could not be a Catholic; for truth is one and we must accept it whole and entire or not at all.

I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable . . . a few will, and must govern them.

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