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Originally Posted By: FaldageWe could make something up and claim it's from Mark Twain:
"It's important to know a bunch of fancy words. If folks can't understand what you're saying because you're using a lot of foot-and-a-half long words, they'll assume you're really intelligent and they'd better do what you say."
Bertrand Russell made a similar jest by suggesting that if you want to be a successful philosopher and still write simply and clearly that you must first write a book with impenetrable mathematics - not as practice for yourself, but more as a signal to your audience that you are capable of being just as obscure as the next philosopher.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted need a brilliant quotation... unciaciapanca 02/12/09 09:11 AM Re: need a brilliant quotation... Faldage 02/12/09 01:17 PM Re: need a brilliant quotation... TheFallibleFiend 02/12/09 02:58 PM Re: need a brilliant quotation... dalehileman 02/12/09 05:13 PM Re: need a brilliant quotation... zmjezhd 02/12/09 01:26 PM Re: need a brilliant quotation... tsuwm 02/12/09 01:42 PM Re: need a brilliant quotation... zmjezhd 02/12/09 04:27 PM
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