WorkInProgress

A place to put some odds and ends that are of little or no consequence at this point, but which may flourish into something meaningful.


Quotes worth quoting

“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”

― attributed to Konrad Lorenz

“Spreadsheets: A dystopian moonscape of unrecorded user actions” Gordon Shotwell github (as cited by Jenny Bryan


The Bard, on Learning in Old Age

Sir, I am too old to learn. King Lear (2.2.99)

And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. The Tempest (4.1.213-4)