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Veritatis simplex oratio est. The language of truth is simple. Seneca
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
A lot of knowledge is unstructured and excessive use of abstract concepts is actually not helpful for understanding. Avoiding excessive abstraction is also a kind of ordinary mind.
Zhang Yiming • Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II
Straightforward is the speech of truth— —and that is why we ought not to complicate things. Those are just verbal traps. Nothing could be less suitable for minds of great endeavor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself; that is, it consists in his correctly distinguishing between what is necessary and what is superfluous.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
对话 Alliance DAO ：不要以DAO的形式开启“公司”，产品比经济模型更重要
There’s no need for Laozi to convince you of anything, for he’s not trying to sell you anything. You can take his words or leave them; it’s all the same to him.
Laozi • Laozi's Dao De Jing
Too much talking is awkward and deviates from the Dao, it is better to keep (ourselves) at the center (i.e., neutral thinking or quiet).