The Logics

Precious gems of humor, and the rebuking of man’s absurdities, are often too brief for a web page, but ripe for blogs.

“Heaven save us from the first novels which are written because a young man desires the prestige of being a novelist rather than because he has something to say! Heaven save us likewise from the mathematical papers which are correct and elegant but without body or spirit. Heaven save us above all from the snobbery which not only admits the possibility of this thin and perfunctory work, but which cries out in a spirit of shrinking arrogance against the competition of vigor and ideas, wherever these may be found! In other words, when there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of being a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet.” Former child prodigy and cybernetics-famed Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, (Da Capo Press, 1988)

It is my wish that my having something useful to say will always prelude my having spoken.