Brunnock

Sean Brunnock

Tips for editing articles

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Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
 -William of Ockham

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
 -Leonardo da Vinci

Brevity is the soul of wit. 
 -William Shakespeare

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
 -Isaac Newton

Simplify, simplify, simplify.
 -Henry David Thoreau

Less is more.
 -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
 -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
 -E. F. Schumacher

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
 -Albert Einstein

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things,
to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.
 -Charles Bukowski

The simplest things are often the truest.
 -Richard Bach

Keep it simple, stupid.  
 -United States Navy

Tips for dealing with other editors

 I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
  -Socrates

 The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
 so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
  -Bertrand Russell

 Like badly taught six-year-olds, we are too quick to go straight to
 opinion making without the intermediate steps of understanding and evaluation.
  -Susan Wise Bauer

 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
 and remove all doubt.
  -Various sources

 Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level
 and beat you with experience.
  -Mark Twain

 Wikipedia is an interesting long-term study in editing by psychopaths
  -Dave Snowden

See also: Randy in Boise and Wikipedia is failing

Books I've read

History The Cartoon History of the Universe (I-III) by Larry Gonick Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian Book of Historical Records by Norris McWhirter Ascent to Civilization by John Gowlett Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond War Through the Ages by Lynn Montross What If? (volumes 1+2) by Robert Cowley The Last Apocalypse by James Reston Jr. The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis Samurai William by Giles Milton The Commanders by Bob Woodward Secret Intelligence by Ernest Volkman and Blaine Bagget History Lessons by Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella by Michael Olmert The Human Story by James C. Davis History of Technology Gunpowder by Jack Kelly Longitude by Dava Sobel and William Andrewes The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage The Prize by Daniel Yergin Star Warriors by William Broad History of Computers The Difference Engine by Doron Swade Before the Computer by James Cortada Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray Microcosm by George Gilder Go To by Steve Lohr The Information Technology Revolution by Tom Forester Hackers by Steven Levy UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan Genius Makers by Cade Metz Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine & Paul Freiberger The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant Computers in the Early Years by Paul Love Priming the Pump by Theresa Welsh & David Welsh A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 by Charles Bourne & Trudi Hahn The Computer Book by Simson Garfinkel and Rachel Grunspan Philosophy The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren Science A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Chronology of Science and Discovery by Isaac Asimov Psychology and Sociology Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace The Second Self by Sherry Turkle Speed Tribes by Karl Greenfield Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus Computer Crime The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll At Large by David Freedman and Charles C. Mann Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura American Kingpin by Nick Bilton The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

Business and Economics The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin The Business of America by John Steele Gordon The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge Money and Power by Howard Means What You Need to Know About Business, Money and Power by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal Global Dreams by Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James A. Champy Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence Miller Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Daniel Gross When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein Comeback by Paul Ingrassia and Joseph White Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis The Money Culture by Michael Lewis Computer Businesses IBM vs Japan by Robert Sobel The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely The New Imperialists by Mark Leibovich Once Upon a Time in Computerland by Jonathan Littman Showstopper by G. Pascal Zachary Start-Up by Jerry Kaplan aol.com by Kara Swisher Burn Rate by Michael Wolff The Perfect Store by Adam Cohen Super Pumped by Mike Isaac Wired: A Romance by Gary Wolf I'm Feeling Lucky (book) by Douglas Edwards Disrupted by Daniel Lyons The Big Score by Michael S. Malone Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy How I Lost 170 Million Dollars by Noah Kagan Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez Computer Critiques The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks The Electronic Sweatshop by Barbara Garson The Trouble with Computers by Thomas Landauer The Cult of Information by Theodore Roszak Fatal Defect by Ivars Peterson Cyberspace by Michael Benedikt Education Critiques Why the Professor Can't Teach by Morris Kline Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer Educated by Tara Westover Running Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear Build Your Running Body by Pete Magill Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr. Against the Clock by John Bryant Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn The Way of the Runner by Adharanand Finn Running to the Edge by Matthew Futterman Health This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay Exercised by Daniel Lieberman

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