Simple English Is No One’s Mother Tongue.

Highly-adaptive, Informal Networks Move Diagonally And Eliptically, Skipping Entire Functions To Get Things Done.

No Subject Of Study Is More Important Than Reading…all Other Intellectual Powers Depend On It.

We May Complain And Cavil At The Anarchy Which Is The Amateurs Natural Element, But In Soberness We Must Agree That If The Amateur Did Not Exist It Would Be Necessary To Invent Him.

Of True Knowledge At Any Time, A Good Part Is Merely Convenient, Necessary Indeed To The Worker, But Not To An Understanding Of His Subject: One Can Judge A Building Without Knowing Where To Buy The Bricks; One Can Understand A Violin Sonata Without Knowing How To Score For The Instrument. The Work May In Fact Be Better Understood Without A Knowledge Of The Details Of Its Manufacture, Of Attention To These Tends To Distract From Meaning And Effect.

I Have Always Been - I Think Any Student Of History Almost Inevitably Is - A Cheerful Pessimist.