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Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

-William of Ockham

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-Leonardo da Vinci

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-William Shakespeare

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

-Isaac Newton

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

-Henry David Thoreau

Less is more.

-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

-E. F. Schumacher

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

-Albert Einstein

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things,

to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

-Charles Bukowski

The simplest things are often the truest.

-Richard Bach

Keep it simple, stupid.

-United States Navy

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

-Socrates

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always

so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

-Bertrand Russell

Like badly taught six-year-olds, we are too quick to go straight to

opinion making without the intermediate steps of understanding and evaluation.

-Susan Wise Bauer

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak

and remove all doubt.

-Various sources

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level

and beat you with experience.

-Mark Twain

[https://thecynefin.co/wikipedia-is-an-interesting-long-term-study-in-editing-by-psychopaths/ Wikipedia is an interesting long-term study in editing by psychopaths]

-Dave Snowden

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• The New History of the World by J. M. Roberts
• The Cartoon History of the Universe (I-III) by Larry Gonick
• Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian
• Book of Historical Records by Norris McWhirter
• Ascent to Civilization by John Gowlett
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• War Through the Ages by Lynn Montross
• What If? (volumes 1+2) by Robert Cowley
• The Last Apocalypse by James Reston Jr.
• The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis
• Samurai William by Giles Milton
• The Commanders by Bob Woodward
• Secret Intelligence by Ernest Volkman and Blaine Bagget
• History Lessons by Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward
• Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella by Michael Olmert
• The Human Story by James C. Davis

• Gunpowder by Jack Kelly
• Longitude by Dava Sobel and William Andrewes
• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
• The Prize by Daniel Yergin
• Star Warriors by William Broad

• The Difference Engine by Doron Swade
• Before the Computer by James Cortada
• Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
• Microcosm by George Gilder
• Go To by Steve Lohr
• The Information Technology Revolution by Tom Forester
• Hackers by Steven Levy
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
• Genius Makers by Cade Metz
• Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine & Paul Freiberger
• The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus
• Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
• Computers in the Early Years by Paul Love
• Priming the Pump by Theresa Welsh & David Welsh
• A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni
• A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 by Charles Bourne & Trudi Hahn
• The Computer Book by Simson Garfinkel and Rachel Grunspan
• Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer by Stan Veit
• In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

• The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee
• A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Chronology of Science and Discovery by Isaac Asimov

• Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
• The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
• The Second Self by Sherry Turkle
• Speed Tribes by Karl Greenfield
• Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus

• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
• At Large by David Freedman and Charles C. Mann
• Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura
• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
• The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

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• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
• The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin
• The Business of America by John Steele Gordon
• The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge
• Money and Power by Howard Means
• What You Need to Know About Business, Money and Power
  by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal
• Global Dreams by Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer
  and James A. Champy
• Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence Miller
• Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Daniel Gross
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• Comeback by Paul Ingrassia and Joseph White
• Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
• The Money Culture by Michael Lewis

• IBM vs Japan by Robert Sobel
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
• The New Imperialists by Mark Leibovich
• Once Upon a Time in Computerland by Jonathan Littman
• Showstopper by G. Pascal Zachary
• Start-Up by Jerry Kaplan
• aol.com by Kara Swisher
• Burn Rate by Michael Wolff
• High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson
• The Perfect Store by Adam Cohen
• Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
• Wired: A Romance by Gary Wolf
• I'm Feeling Lucky (book) by Douglas Edwards
• Disrupted by Daniel Lyons
• The Big Score by Michael S. Malone
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
• To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy
• How I Lost 170 Million Dollars by Noah Kagan
• Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez

• The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
• The Electronic Sweatshop by Barbara Garson
• The Trouble with Computers by Thomas Landauer
• The Cult of Information by Theodore Roszak
• Fatal Defect by Ivars Peterson
• Cyberspace by Michael Benedikt

• Why the Professor Can't Teach by Morris Kline
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
• The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
• Educated by Tara Westover

• Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear
• Build Your Running Body by Pete Magill
• Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.
• Against the Clock by John Bryant
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn
• The Way of the Runner by Adharanand Finn
• Running to the Edge by Matthew Futterman

• Spring Chicken by Bill Gifford
• This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
• Exercised by Daniel Lieberman

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