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imported>Christine Bush m (Revised occurrences of the word "quote" being used as a noun to "quotation.") |
imported>Christine Bush (Added quotation from Gunnar Olsson's Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason (2009, Univ. of Chicago Press, p. 6.) |
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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite> | ||
|64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br /> | |64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font:size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Gunnar Olsson<br/> | |||
|65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite> | ||
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Revision as of 15:46, 3 July 2014
The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing