User:Brunnock

Sean Brunnock

Tips for editing articles

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
 -William of Ockham

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
 -Leonardo da Vinci

Brevity is the soul of wit. 
 -William Shakespeare

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
 -Isaac Newton

Simplify, simplify, simplify.
 -Henry David Thoreau

Less is more.
 -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
 -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
 -E. F. Schumacher

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
 -Albert Einstein

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things,
to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.
 -Charles Bukowski

The simplest things are often the truest.
 -Richard Bach

Keep it simple, stupid.  
 -United States Navy

Tips for dealing with other editors

 I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
  -Socrates

 The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
 so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
  -Bertrand Russell

 Like badly taught six-year-olds, we are too quick to go straight to
 opinion making without the intermediate steps of understanding and evaluation.
  -Susan Wise Bauer

 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
 and remove all doubt.
  -Various sources

 Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level
 and beat you with experience.
  -Mark Twain

 Wikipedia is an interesting long-term study in editing by psychopaths
  -Dave Snowden

Books I've read

History

The Cartoon History of the Universe (I-III) by Larry Gonick
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian
Book of Historical Records by Norris McWhirter
Ascent to Civilization by John Gowlett
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
War Through the Ages by Lynn Montross
What If? (volumes 1+2) by Robert Cowley
The Last Apocalypse by James Reston Jr.
The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis
Samurai William by Giles Milton
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
Secret Intelligence by Ernest Volkman and Blaine Bagget
History Lessons by Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward
Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella by Michael Olmert
The Human Story by James C. Davis

History of Technology

Gunpowder by Jack Kelly
Longitude by Dava Sobel and William Andrewes
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
Star Warriors by William Broad

History of Computers

The Difference Engine by Doron Swade
Before the Computer by James Cortada
Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
Microcosm by George Gilder
Go To by Steve Lohr
The Information Technology Revolution by Tom Forester
Hackers by Steven Levy
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
Genius Makers by Cade Metz
Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine & Paul Freiberger
The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus
Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
Computers in the Early Years by Paul Love
Priming the Pump by Theresa Welsh & David Welsh
A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni
A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 by Charles Bourne & Trudi Hahn
The Computer Book by Simson Garfinkel and Rachel Grunspan
Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer by Stan Veit
In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee
A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren

Science

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Chronology of Science and Discovery by Isaac Asimov

Psychology and Sociology

Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
The Second Self by Sherry Turkle
Speed Tribes by Karl Greenfield
Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus

Computer Crime

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
At Large by David Freedman and Charles C. Mann
Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

Business and Economics

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin
The Business of America by John Steele Gordon
The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge
Money and Power by Howard Means
What You Need to Know About Business, Money and Power
by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal
Global Dreams by Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer
and James A. Champy
Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence Miller
Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Daniel Gross
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
Comeback by Paul Ingrassia and Joseph White
Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
The Money Culture by Michael Lewis