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Advice to Myself From the Literature
- Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble. If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one. ---Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. ---Richard P. Feynman
- Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it. ---John Barrow
- I guess then that the process that produced living things, if a simple one, is too simple to have produced minds able to understand it. ---A.S
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. ---Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. ---Ernest Hemingway
- A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ---Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)