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1. He is man of principle - he would cut his mother's throat
for a principle.
2. I don't know if he would die for his cause, but he certainly
will lie for it.
3. Besides the work ethic, there is the regulatory ethic. "The
main way to improve the world is to forbid something".
4. It's better than the radical ethic. "The main way to improve
the world is to kill somebody".
5. Greg Chaitin's Omega is one of the first strongly Hardyan mathematical
theories. The theory contains a proof of its own uselessness.
6. It is a Spencerean tragedy. - According to T.H. Huxley, "Mr.
Herbert Spencer's idea of a tragedy is a theory slain by a fact".