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"Statues from which used to drip the life-blood of a parasitic cult -
Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
"Statues from which used to drip the life-blood of a parasitic cult -
Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
“I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.”
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and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.”
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“There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Life itself is a quotation.”
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“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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