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The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
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The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we…
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The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…
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As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely…
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I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my…
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The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive…
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the…
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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall…
— William Whewell
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Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
— Evan Parker
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The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive…
— Lynne Truss
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can…
— Harold Budd
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret…
— Michael Faraday
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that…
— Gottlob Frege
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