How do we keep the audience’s attention? Certainly not by giving them more information but, on the contrary, by withholding information—by withholding all information except that information in the absence of which would make the progress of the story incomprehensible.”

@fluxtheorist Sciama:"You know my favorite Dirac story? I go up to him once and I say: 'Professor Dirac I've just thought of a way of relating the formation of stars to cosmological things. Should I tell you about it?' And he said: 'No'. [...] Two days later I realized it was absolute rubbish"

I hereby renounce the right to complacency and vow lifelong to take only what minimum of leisure is necessary to my productivity, viewing health, happiness, rest and play as means, not ends, and that, while Utopia provides my needs, I will commit the full produce of my labors to our collective effort to redirect the path of human life away from dea... See more