User:Brunnock

Sean Brunnock

Tips for editing articles
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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. -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

Books I've read
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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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