Tuesday, December 02, 2008

I'm Just Wilde About Wilson


. . . That's what SHE said :) . . .

Beyond the Merely Quantifiable:

Some remarks are quoted so often we cease to pay attention to them. The quips of Oscar Wilde, for instance, trip so easily off the tongue and skip so lightly through the mind that we rarely pause to consider their point. This is unfortunate . . ..

Frank eloquently shows and tells why.


^ That's my partner guy :) . . .

1 comment:

  1. I just recently ran across Bruce Kodish's pointing out to the readers of his blog a frequently quoted or paraphrased remark the point of which we might not often pause to consider:

    "Korzybski's famous 'aphorism'—"A map is not the territory" has become ubiquitous in some parts of the culture.

    "The analogy seems so compelling and has become such a common part of people's 'mental furniture', that many people like Nassim Nicholas Taleb, use it as part of their own formulating without any indication that they know that it came from Korzybski or constituted an important formulation of his system of 'thought'."

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