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“A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.”

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Tim O'Reilly is a prominent figure in the fields of technology publishing and media. He is known for his contributions to open source software, creative sharing, and digital publishing. more

“Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity”

“There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.”

Men Whole He Man Profound Mathematician Scorn Second Rate

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.”

Firsts Persons Young Values Behinds Duty Ambition Rate Leaving Permanent Ambitious

Author:G. H. Hardy

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