When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied… - Jacques Barzun

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When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Jacques Barzun

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About Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun (November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American scholar, historian, critic, teacher and editor.

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Alternative Names: Jacques Martin Barzun

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The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.

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