The men who invented libraries, and who have spent millennia filling them with books?  Morons.

The authors of scholarly journals never understand anything well enough:  That is why they write so very much, as they seek to improve their understanding of the universe.  They yearn as Faust, but the devil offers them no easy answers.

The true measure of knowledge is to know enough to know how little one knows.  I myself find my grossest ignorance in my greatest expertise.

The wise man knows that his ignorance is infinite, and the sum of all human knowledge is negligible:  He stands on a mountaintop, gazing at stars and galaxies.  An insect is unaware of the existence of mountains.

Jack Dorsey had the answer:  Break all thought and discourse down into bite-sized pieces, which can be consumed without any need for non-negligible attention span—without need for thought.  Reading becomes like munching on potato chips.  It surely improves the quality of discussion:  Observe “Crypto Twitter”.

Nietzsche wrote aphoristically, when bodily health problems inhibited him from writing long-form essays.  He wrote nothing simply:  His most succinct statements compressed libraries hidden therewithin.  Decompression is difficult—cryptanalysis:  Not simple, and not for simpletons.  He would have despised Twitter.

Filed under “Casting Pearls”.