Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.