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Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883) "Character"

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

~ George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Reason in Ethics"

Some articles I created

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Recently

• Henry Timrod – Poet Laureate of the Confederacy.
• Clay – Who are they who speak evil of her feet of clay?
• Art Clokey – Creator of Gumby, recently deceased.
• Grass – ...grows better for being stepped on.
• Kenneth E. Iverson – Creator of APL, Turing laureate

From the archives

• Chinua Achebe • Joel Barlow • John Brunner • Bureaucracy • Anne Carson • Ted Chiang • E. F. Codd • Fernando J. Corbató • J. V. Cunningham • Lee De Forest • Fiction • Robert Floyd • Richard Hamming • How to Lie with Statistics‎ • Josephine Jacobsen • Josephine Miles • Charles Olson • George Oppen • George Pólya • Programming languages • Sharing • Shoes • Strangers • Edward Taylor • Frederick Goddard Tuckerman • Vanity • Phillis Wheatley • James H. Wilkinson • John Yau •

Some articles where I made substantial contributions

Expanded significantly, un-stubbed, rescued from deletion, found citations, & etc...

Recently

• Ambition – The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods
• Books – Never read any book that is not a year old.
• Kurt Hahn – Founder of Outward Bound
• Silence – Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
• Eugene S. Wilson – "Only the curious will learn."

From the archives

• Advertising • Edward Bernays • Yogi Berra • Richard Brautigan • Jacob Bronowski • Fred Brooks • Fritjof Capra • Childhood's End • John Crowley • Dance • Democritus • The Dispossessed • Edsger W. Dijkstra • Go • John Heywood • C. A. R. Hoare‎ • Hurry • Donald Knuth • Laughter • Stanisław Lem • Benoît Mandelbrot • Mathematics • John McCarthy • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Allen Newell • Donald Norman • Alan Perlis • Quotations • Reputation • Statistics • Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Timequake • Maurice Wilkes • Worth •

Some articles perennially in need of work

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• English proverbs • Politics • Programming •