Volunteer Iconoclast -- Available for All Occasions
I call myself iconoclastus online, because the Yahoo! email software suggested this nom de keyboard to me many years ago, and it seemed fitting. The Yahoo! AI seems very wise and ahead of its time, to know me so well. I'm afraid to ponder too much on how much it knows about me now, but they do have a very effective spam filter, so I've stuck with them.
"The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is a great matter. 'Tis the difference between the lightning-bug and lightning." -- Mark Twain
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." -- Albert Einstein
"We need to experience a consciousness of mortality so as to wake up ourselves as to what is really important: the authentic in our lives, which is life experience, not knowledge." -- Jean-Paul Sartre