“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;”
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
" New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/2362/1/feynman.pdf", Engineering and Science volume 28, number 6 (March 1965) p. 9-15 at p. 14<br>Paraphrased as "Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem." <br class="br">Context: The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person. It is only necessary to be precise when there is some doubt as to the meaning of a phrase, and then the precision should be put in the place where the doubt exists. It is really quite impossible to say anything with absolute precision, unless that thing is so abstracted from the real world as to not represent any real thing.Pure mathematics is just such an abstraction from the real world, and pure mathematics does have a special precise language for dealing with its own special and technical subjects. But this precise language is not precise in any sense if you deal with real objects of the world, and it is only pedantic and quite confusing to use it unless there are some special subtleties which have to be carefully distinguished.
“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
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1970s
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
Eben die Bahn, aus welcher das Geschlecht zu seiner Vollkommenheit gelangt, muß jeder einzelne Mensch (der früher, der später) erst durchlaufen haben.
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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
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Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
The Great Wall of China.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)
