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We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it
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So very true.
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi”
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
“People do not come to the dictionary for excitement and romance; that’s what encyclopedias are for.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“one of the deep mysteries of the origin of life is the almost indecent haste with which it arose on Earth.”
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
“So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating it.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
“The point isn’t that we should expect moral perfection, or that we can know all objective moral truths, only that our smugness should be kept in check and our judgment of past generations should be tempered by recognition of their progress and our own failings. Too often we seem to think that barbarians are in the past and that we’ve reached some pinnacle. I think the climbing never ends.”
― Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
― Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
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