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While I have this book in front of me: "all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book [A New Kind of Science] ..
by matt2019 7y ago
While I have this book in front of me: "all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book [A New Kind of Science] ... Steve said, 'Isaac Newton didn't have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?'"
- tom_ 7y agoThis reminds me of one of my favourite Ayn Rand quotes: after being asked to shorten John Galt's (interminable, 70-odd-page, tiny print) speech in Atlas Shrugged - "Would you cut the Bible?"!