“The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots.” – Read on Path.
“La locura de confundir una metáfora con una prueba, un torrente de palabras con una fuente de verdades capitales, y a uno mismo con un oráculo, es innata en nosotros.” – Read on Path.
“Gobbledygook: INFORMAL language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms.” – Read on Path.
To return to Harry Frankfurt, the key distinction between the liar and the bullshitter is that the former conceals “that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality,” whereas the latter conceals that he is not interested in reality at all. The bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.” – Read on Path.
“I attempt to solve a Sudoku puzzle in under five minutes but fail miserably, not necessarily because I’m not smarter than I was yesterday, but because I’m not a single, 43-year-old woman.” – Read on Path.
“In many ways, Battlefield Earth resembles the work of a contemporary of Hubbard’s, someone who also suffuses her writing with cardboard characters, black-and-white morality, a stunted fixation on romantic adventure, and a megalomaniacal desire to turn her fictitious belief system into a real-world cult: Ayn Rand. Sadly, both succeeded. Maybe it’s no accident that I became infatuated with Rand’s novels as a teenager, a few years after reading Battlefield Earth. It’s easy to dismiss this kind of broad, sweeping fiction, with its straw men and stock villains and reductive views of humanity. But when you’re an adolescent, it’s comforting—even empowering—to stumble across such a pat, sharply defined way of compartmentalizing reality. Granted, some people never grow out of it, and we’re left with the Tom Cruises and Paul Ryans of the world.” – Read on Path.
Un estudiante flojo pide que le hagan un reporte de lectura. El autor responde. http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/08/13/13260115-student-asks-internet-for-help-avoiding-book-gets-schooled-by-its-author
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