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 # Favorite Quotes
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 > [!quote] Ecclesiastes 10:10 King James Version
 > If the iron be blunt,
-> and he do not whet the edge,    
+> and he do not whet the edge,
 > then must he put to more strength:
 > but wisdom _is_ profitable to direct.
 
 I like the story because it's well known
 and easily interpreted as an [optimization problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_problem).
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+## About Originality
+
+> [!quote] Brian Eno, _A Year With Swollen Appendices_, p. 67
+> A way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking
+> that nobody else has ever bothered with it.