RE: Brevity Burns
August 22, 2023 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2023 at 12:51 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(August 21, 2023 at 10:14 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 21, 2023 at 9:09 pm)MarcusA Wrote: Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare. - Nietzsche
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Nietzsche
Gobbledygook is long-winded tripe.
Sabine Hossenfelder has a YouTube channel titled "Science Without The Gobbledygook".
Good stuff, but her videos end up being too short for my commute.
I like Sabine.
She has good rabbit recipes.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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