Patrick O'Brian Quote

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too p...

Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.

For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until appropriated words that were ancient and vague—f...

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education. He used to say, How can you design for people if you don’t know history and psychology? You ca...

The police never saw a noun they didn't want to turn into a verb, so it quickly became to action, as in you action me to undertake a Falcon assessment, I action a Falcon assessment, a Falcon assessmen...

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts.Really?We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-establish...