“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
No. 376
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Suggesting to Claude Shannon a name for his new uncertainty function, as quoted in Scientific American Vol. 225 No. 3, (1971), p. 180.
Context: You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
The Zookeeper's Wife (2008)
Context: I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
