Zitat des Tages über Pedantisch / Pedantic:
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.