“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.” KnowsChildrenThreeLanguageHoursWorkFourMonthsBecomingSixBenefitsResearchAdultsDifficultyConstantTongueFasterDisagreeDozenSix MonthsTheoreticalExperimentationThree MonthsUnderestimatedFluentLinguists Author:Tim Ferriss
“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.” WorldSoundCommonFourWonderfulAdventureWallResearchFellowsWideCommon SenseRealmsVentureRespectableHomelyFour Walls Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.” ThinkingEyeScienceBrainFourResearchMachinesFourthMeasurementMarket Research Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.” PeopleYearsFoundEffortFourResearchConsciousMeetingsMarketingStoresFour YearsConvenientGroceriesHookedLabsAisleGrocery StoresInexpensive Author:Michael Moss
“I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people who are not merely playing follow-my-leader in research.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensUseI BelieveCommonLeaderFourResearchMy Time Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought