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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ~ Rene Descartes

Motto . . . and whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said with three letters or numerals or quotations or words & sometimes with an extra one as a title or pointer. ~ Kurnberger updated by Requote 0409

Nature: Elegance in design. ~ Requote

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ~ Aristotle

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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion. ~ Immanuel Kant

Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system. ~ Stan Augarten

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

If one Is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, Insight into and understanding of many things. ~ Vincent van Gogh August

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. ~ Nicholas Murray Butler
A master is one who knows less and less about more and more. ~ Requote

There are those who talk about their knowledge and those who give of Their experience through knowledge.
There are Novels and books with lots of pages called novels.
There are design engineers and Engineers that design.
There are Doctors and there are doctors.
Quality or quantity
Etc, etc, etc.

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Structure - Infrastructure – Organisation
Draft: Base 7x7 descending order

a Zero. . . . . . . . F0
a One. . . . . . . . . F1
b Two. . . . . . . . . Artist
b Three. . . . . . . . Polymath
b Four. . . . . . . . Master
c Five. . . . . . . . Expert
c Six. . . . . . . . . Scholar
c Seven. . . . . . . . Academic

For myself I make a clear distinction between academic and scholarly work; Academics try to organise and catorgorise data, the Scholar turns that data into a resource. That resource can be identified or defined as information. ~ Requote

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic. ~ Aristotle

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. ~ Alan Moore

Everything is self-evident. ~ Rene Descartes

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Grasp the subject and the words will follow.
~ Cato the Elder (or censor) 234-149bc Roman. Statemans, orator and writer.
 
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