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Sean Brunnock

Tips for editing articles

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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

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 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

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History of Technology

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  • 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

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Philosophy

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Science

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Psychology and Sociology

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Computer Crime

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Business and Economics

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Computer Businesses

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Computer Critiques

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Education Critiques

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Running

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Health

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Sandbox

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User:Brunnock/History of the World Wide Web

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