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*Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ---Attributed to the Dali Lama
*Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ---Attributed to the Dali Lama
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*The value of a good summary article is in the choice of what details to leave out. ---Jaron Lanier
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  • Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning." ---Jaron Lanier, Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism


  • 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 offer then the sugestion that the process that produced and sustains living things, if a simple one, would be 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, fool-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)


  • Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words. ---Whitaker


  • One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. ---Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)


  • You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. ---F. Scott Fitzgerald


  • Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein


  • Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to. ---Anthony Sebastian

  • The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug. ---Mark Twain


  • Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ---Attributed to the Dali Lama


  • The value of a good summary article is in the choice of what details to leave out. ---Jaron Lanier


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