Ancient Equivocations
February, 1984
Storing as much information as possible in the smallest available space has always been one of man's preoccupations. The ancients--those born before the floppy disk--had to make do with the aphorism, an eternal truth packed into a one-liner so pithy even a son-in-law could remember it. Not only were aphorisms memorable, they were infinitely flexible; no matter which side of an argument one was on, one could always find a bit of wisdom with which to cover one's posterior, an aphorism to battle an...
