Quote of the Day: Anthony Burgess

[Inspiration Bot]

"I didn't think; I experimented."

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[Prophet Zacharia]

This one is more interesting:

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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Anthony Burgess

 

[maddmaxx ★]

1 hour ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

This one is more interesting:

 

See.  Experimentation without thinking.

[Ralphie ★]

I can only think of Burgess Meredith. 
Hmmm, died all the way back in 1997!  Weird how he was considered a virtuosic actor with a very long and full acting career but the main thing I remember him for is being The Penguin.

 

[Road Runner]

11 hours ago, Inspiration Bot said:

"I didn't think; I experimented."

Sounds like a common Wordle solving tactic.   

[maddmaxx ★]

Born in the 60's eh?

[Ralphie ★]

41 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

Sounds like a common Wordle solving tactic.   

I am having fun thinking of the perfect complementary second word.  It is actually more relevant in quordle where I think it pays just to spray the most common letters out early since you have 9 tries so no use racking your brian with sparse letters.   I did resort to using the cheap cheating-ass word soare and it is indeed effective!  I think RRs ATONE is slightly better than my recent go to STONE because vowels.  But LATER is definitely a good go to word.

[MickinMD ★]

12 hours ago, Inspiration Bot said:

Anthony Burgess: "I didn't think; I experimented."

In science, research advanced from the thought experiments of the Socratic Age - when doing a physical experiment was considered cheating - to Archimedes, The Father of Experimental Science who figured out, from the rise and fall of the water level when he sat or rose in a bathtub, how to determine if the king's crown was pure gold and ran naked down the streets of ancient Syracuse, Sicily yelling "Eureka!" (Greek for "I found it!").

I tried to find the context of the Burgess quote, and found it was about FORM in writing novels, a similar approach to Archimedes: