2 8 NOTES iDissertations and Books (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. Zerubavel offers detailed guidance on how to timetable writing sessions. Quoted in AD. Sertillanges,
The Intellectual Life Its Spirits,Conditions and Methods (Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), translated by
Mary Ryan, p. 220.
18. Zerubavel,
The Clockwork Muse, chs 4–5.
19.
James Gleick,
Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything(London: Abacus, 2000).
20. St Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica: A Concise Translation(London: Methuen, 1991), edited by T. McDermott, p. 439.
21. Blaise Pascal, quoted in Sertillanges,
The Intellectual Life, p. 216.
22. Immanuel Kant,
The Critique of Pure Reason (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1986), p. 338.
23. Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe,
Great Writings of Goethe (New
York: Meridian, 1958), edited by Stephen Spender, p. 272.
24. W. H. Auden, quoted in Sand K. Baker,
The Idiot’s Guide to ProjectManagement (Indianapolis: Macmillan, 2000), second edition, p. 142.
25. F. Scott Fitzgerald,
quoted in Baker and Baker,
The Idiot’s Guide toProject Management, p. 272.
26. Neil Simon, quoted in Minkin,
Exits and Entrances, p. 102.
27. John Dewey,
Democracy and Education (New York Macmillan, p. Chapter
Handling attention points data, charts and graphics.
National Audit Office,
Presenting Data in Reports (London: National
Audit Office, 1998), p. 1.
2. Radiohead, Karma Police from their CD
OK Computer (London:
Parlophone, 1997).
3. Quoted in L. D. Eigen and JP. Siegel,
Dictionary of PoliticalQuotations (London: Robert Hale, 1994), p. 470.
4. National Audit Office,
Presenting Data in Reports (London: NAO,
1999), p. 10.
5. See AS. C. Ehrenberg,
A Primer in Data Reduction (Chichester:
Wiley, 1982) fora full set of examples. Greg Evans in his science fiction novel
Diaspora (London, Orion
Books, 1997), p. 36. Evans’s original quotation is in the past tense,
but I have rephrased it in the present tense. The quote describes how virtual entities called citizens in future electronic communities called polises (that is, identities born from computer images of original human personalities, learn maths.
NOTES. My favourite sources are now dated but still useful works, such as
Catherine Marsh,
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