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  1. @davidgerard

    It's the hubris that gets me.

    "Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

    Chesterton's coreutils.

    #Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence

  2. @davidgerard

    It's the hubris that gets me.

    "Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

    Chesterton's coreutils.

    #Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence

  3. @davidgerard

    It's the hubris that gets me.

    "Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

    Chesterton's coreutils.

    #Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence

  4. @davidgerard

    It's the hubris that gets me.

    "Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

    Chesterton's coreutils.

    #Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence

  5. @davidgerard

    It's the hubris that gets me.

    "Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"

    Chesterton's coreutils.

    #Chesterton #coreutils #ChestertonsFence

  6. A quotation from G. K. Chesterson

    For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
    Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column

    More info about this quote: wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-k…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chesterton #gkchesterton #academia #amusement #childpsychology #childrearing #literature #education #fun #imagination #nonsense #nurseryrhymes #pedagogy #pomposity #psychology

  7. A quotation from G. K. Chesterson

    For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
    Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column

    More info about this quote: wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-k…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chesterton #gkchesterton #academia #amusement #childpsychology #childrearing #literature #education #fun #imagination #nonsense #nurseryrhymes #pedagogy #pomposity #psychology

  8. A quotation from G. K. Chesterson

    For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
    Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column

    More info about this quote: wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-k…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chesterton #gkchesterton #academia #amusement #childpsychology #childrearing #literature #education #fun #imagination #nonsense #nurseryrhymes #pedagogy #pomposity #psychology

  9. A quotation from G. K. Chesterson

    For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
    Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column

    More info about this quote: wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-k…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chesterton #gkchesterton #academia #amusement #childpsychology #childrearing #literature #education #fun #imagination #nonsense #nurseryrhymes #pedagogy #pomposity #psychology

  10. The choice of language isn't going to help much if the people writing the rusty replacements for decades-old tools don't bother to understand the security issues and attack surfaces that led to the design of those tools in the first place.

    Similarly, Linux distributions shipping #screensaver implementations that are essentially nothing but a login-bypass mechanism that wastes CPU/GPU cycles.

    #Rust #C #secure #design #tool #software #XScreenSaver #attack #Chesterton #ChestertonsFence #fence

  11. Distributism - utopian dream, or a way forward? The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast (series 3 episode 4) in any of the normal podcast places, or here -

    podomatic.com/podcasts/raylove

    #Distributism #SimpleLiving #Chesterton #Tolkien #CSLewis #podcast

  12. #Introduction. I (Editor) love quoting #GKChesterton. He was a great #journalist whose #essay(s) are still loved today. Advocated #Distributism #Economics. What he noticed about #Millionaires 100 years ago still apply to #Billionaires today.

    #HistoryRepeats. #Chesterton was a huge influence on #Fantasy #Literature today, inspiring such #Authors as #Tolkien, #Pratchett, #CSLewis, and #Gaiman, with his thoughts on #Myth, #Story, #Art, and #Narrative.

  13. Having figured as ruthless realists sweeping all spiritual visions like cobwebs out of the sky, they then suddenly became extravagant sentimentalists over some of the common or garden flowers they found growing naturally out of the earth.
    -- G. K. Chesterton
    2/3

    Source: All Is Grist (1931)
    #Rational #Realist #Spiritual #Thinking #Feeling #Ruthless #Sentimental #Modern #Chesterton #Dante #Quotes

  14. Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
    #CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

  15. Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
    #CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

  16. Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
    #CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

  17. Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
    #CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

  18. Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
    --G K Chesterton

    Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
    #CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes