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Subject: Re: Thomas Bushnell
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Dear Thomas F. Burdick,

upon thee i endow a lesson.

I read somewhere, probably a quote by Galois, who were asked how he
mastered greatly, the replies was "to read the originals" or something
to that effect.

I have hold that quote in my mind for years. I reasoned the gist being
sometimes only the master himself can tell the story penetratingly. So
i have tried to read originals too. However, my experience with
originals hasn't been great. Perhaps i'm not a genius, but upon
further thinking, the "reading originals" are simply affectation of
fucking quotes, loved by fucking above-it geeks. It has all smell of
wisdom, which is no more than A empty shell of drama. Say, why don't
we do away with study or research, and all listen to great quotes,
then peace will rain on earth, and man will hike on mars?

What's with the "reading originals"? Simply put, reading originals has
only historical interest. Time has drawn and changed. For all
practical and theoretical purposes, do not read originals. Read the
text books to begin. You'll learn much more efficiently, and much more
too. I have these days too much important things to do than hunkering
inside tomes.

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For those who understand theory, theory is everything.
   --Xah Lee

Theory vs Practice:
http://xahlee.org/Writ_dir/theory_vs_practice.txt   episode I
http://xahlee.org/Writ_dir/macos-talk/13.txt        episode II

 Xah
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From: Thomas F. Burdick (t...@mudslide.OCF.Berkeley.EDU)
Subject: Re: Thomas Bushnell 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Date: 2002-07-15 12:17:18 PST 

x...@xahlee.org (Xah Lee) writes:

> explicated by Darwin,

Moron.  Try actually reading Darwin.

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