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Sean Brunnock

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 [[Occam's razor|''Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.'']]
  -William of Ockham

 ''Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.''
  -[[Leonardo da Vinci]]

 [[Hamlet|''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]]

 [[Minimalism|''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]]

 [[KISS principle|''Keep it simple, stupid.'']]  
  -United States Navy

== Tips for dealing with other editors ==

  [[I know that I know nothing|''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]]

  [https://thecynefin.co/wikipedia-is-an-interesting-long-term-study-in-editing-by-psychopaths/ Wikipedia is an interesting long-term study in editing by psychopaths]
   -[[Dave Snowden]]

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== Books I've read ==
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===History===
*The New History of the World by [[J. M. Roberts]]
*[[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? (essays)|What If?]] (volumes 1+2) by [[Robert Cowley]]
*The Last Apocalypse by [[James Reston Jr.]]
*The Birth of the Modern by [[Paul Johnson (journalist)|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: Heroes of the Computer Revolution|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
*Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer by [[Stan Veit]]
*[[In the Beginning...was the Command Line]] by [[Neal Stephenson]]

===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: A Secret History of the 20th Century|Lipstick Traces]] by [[Greil Marcus]]


===Computer Crime===
*[[The Cuckoo's Egg (book)|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]]

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===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<BR> 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]]<br> and [[James A. Champy]]
*Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence Miller
*Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time by [[Daniel Gross]]
*[[When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management|When Genius Failed]] by [[Roger Lowenstein]]
*Comeback by [[Paul Ingrassia]] and Joseph White
*[[Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco|Barbarians at the Gate]] by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
*[[Den of Thieves (Book)|Den of Thieves]] by [[James B. Stewart]]
*[[Liar's Poker]] by [[Michael Lewis (author)|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 (journalist)|Michael Wolff]]
*The Perfect Store by Adam Cohen
*[[Super Pumped]] by Mike Isaac
*Wired: A Romance by [[Gary Wolf (journalist)|Gary Wolf]]
*[[I'm Feeling Lucky (book)]] by Douglas Edwards
*[[Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble|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 (author)|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 (scholar)|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 (book)|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 (McDougall book)|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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