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Don’t quote. Make it yours and say it yourself
- _aavaa_ 4y ago"I am by nature too lazy and slothful to go looking for authors to say what I know how to say without them." — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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- possiblydrunk 4y agoIf you like and believe in something you heard, own it; don't reference the source.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoThere are a few good reasons it's useful to reference things: 1) To keep yourself separate from ideas. If they are yours, they are harder to change. Paul Graham spoke about a similar idea in an essay about keeping your identity small. 2) It helps remember them, and create a system you can iterate through. Like, "are there any ideas from economics which are helpful here?" and so on. This is an idea from Charlie Munger. 3) It lets you avoid sounding like a fraud. If I say "I have this idea that you need to practice for 10,000 hours to get good at things", or "I came up with a theory that the force applied divided by the mass will give me the acceleration", I sound like a fraud. To function in society you need people to not think you are a fraud.
- samtimalsina 4y ago> Paul Graham spoke about a similar idea in an essay about keeping your identity small. I don't know. I follow PG on Twitter, and it doesn't seem like he keeps his identity separate from his ideas. He has some really good ideas and clearly he has thought about them for some time, but you can't budge him from his worldview. And worldviews are harder to change. [1] [1](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1534617377912111112 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1534617377912111112)
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoI didn't say he does it. I said he spoke about it...
- tabtab 4y agoDo not quote. Make it yours and then say it yourself.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoPlease stop stealing my ideas. This has been my idea for at least an hour now.
- stuntkite 4y ago"If you can't handle my quotes, you won't understand that I'm the best and you deserve the worst" - Gilgamesh
- krallja 4y ago(2019)
- vintermann 4y agoBarrera, 2022. And vintermann 2022 too.
- odame 4y agoIf its not an original idea it makes sense to reference where you got it. I think it's about humility rather than showing someone you're well read.
- loonster 4y agoYou can say anything in quotes. People wont get mad at you, they get mad at the person you quotes. The same thing happens with ventriloquist. The puppet takes the heat.
- vintermann 4y agoGeorge Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends (a.k.a the Quakers), had a Christian variant on this, which I'll quote - because quoting things is fine, it's still not in opposition to making them your own! : "You will say Christ saith this, and the Apostles say this, but what canst thou say?" As he saw it, it was not acceptable to point to scripture and say you were just following orders. You were called to be a friend of Christ, who understands what your friend wants, and wants the same. (That's the point of John 15:15, though it's obviously not John 15:15 doing the calling.) So your judgements should be able to stand on their own.
- msarrel 4y agoWhat a childish approach to research.
- rytill 4y agoIs this author writing research? It doesn’t seem like it.