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Surprising that it took this long. PG's quotes page includes several by "Tara Ploughman", an anagram for "Not Paul Graham". When this was discovered, PG lamented the lack of a socially acceptable way to publish "single sentence essays". Twitter fills the gap nicely.

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Nicholas Nassim Taleb (author of The Black Swan) uses Twitter for exactly that purpose: http://twitter.com/nntaleb "(I use twitter to test philosophical aphorisms/epigrams)."

"This person has protected their tweets."

Strange.

You have to be logged in to Twitter to see NNT's tweets. I think that has something to do with scraping/copyright and that his aphorisms are going to be published as a book.

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