
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), Moral of the work
Context: It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, and as-yet unsolved problems.
Attributed in the "quote of the day" source code of the “Fortune” computer program (June 1987); more at "The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’" at Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/
General sources
“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.
“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)