"The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central exchange, the clearinghouse, which makes out the balance. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other. They began by using him as a short-cut, a convenience; now he has made himself an essential. In that great brain of his everything is pigeon-holed and can be handed out in an instant."
- Sherlock Holmes, talking about his brother, Mycroft Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes, talking about his brother, Mycroft Holmes
Forwarded from Shower Thoughts 🚿
Normally the floor is what stops gravity from killing us, but if we get too far from it, gravity uses the floor to kill us.
What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
- S. T. Coleridge
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
- S. T. Coleridge
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Forwarded from Aesthetics
“And I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself in every moment "I exist." In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone on a post -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” Mitya speaking to his younger brother Alyosha , excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov
Judgment, Gary Klein points out, is rarely a calculated weighing of all options, which we are not good at anyway, but instead an unconscious form of pattern recognition.