284 ◆NOTES
Dissertations and Books(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1999). Zerubavel offers detailed guidance on how to timetable
writing sessions.- Quoted in A. D. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits,
Conditions and Methods(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), translated by
Mary Ryan, p. 220. - Zerubavel, The Clockwork Muse, chs 4–5.
- James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything
(London: Abacus, 2000). - St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: A Concise Translation
(London: Methuen, 1991), edited by T. McDermott, p. 439. - Blaise Pascal, quoted in Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life, p. 216.
- Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1986), p. 338. - Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, Great Writings of Goethe(New
York: Meridian, 1958), edited by Stephen Spender, p. 272. - W. H. Auden, quoted in S. and K. Baker, The Idiot’s Guide to Project
Management(Indianapolis: Macmillan, 2000), second edition, p. 142. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in Baker and Baker, The Idiot’s Guide to
Project Management, p. 272. - Neil Simon, quoted in Minkin, Exits and Entrances, p. 102.
- John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan,
1916), p. 140.
Chapter 7 Handling attention points: data, charts
and graphics
- National Audit Office, Presenting Data in Reports(London: National
Audit Office, 1998), p. 1. - Radiohead, ‘Karma Police’ from their CD OK Computer(London:
Parlophone, 1997). - Quoted in L. D. Eigen and J. P. Siegel, Dictionary of Political
Quotations(London: Robert Hale, 1994), p. 470. - National Audit Office, Presenting Data in Reports(London: NAO,
1999), p. 10. - See A. S. C. Ehrenberg, A Primer in Data Reduction(Chichester:
Wiley, 1982) for a full set of examples). - Greg Evans in his science fiction novel Diaspora(London, Orion
Books, 1997), p. 36. Evans’s original quotation is in the past tense,
but I have rephrased it in the present tense. The quote describes how
virtual entities called ‘citizens’ in future electronic communities
called polises (that is, identities ‘born’ from computer images of
original human personalities), learn maths.