Some Quotes

Okay, so it's coming to the end of the semester, and apparently the people who write textbooks seem to think no one is going to read the last chapters. So they throw sentences in there that really probably should not have been put in there. Or maybe it was just late when the publisher was reviewing it, and they decided not to review the last chapter, or whatever, what do I know about book publishing? Anyway, here's the quotes:

“We use intelligence to structure our environment so that we can succeed with less intelligence. Our brains make the world smart so we can be dumb in peace!”
- Andy Clark, 1997. Being There, MIT Press

“As a general rule, graphics packages offer sets of colors that are recommended for producing a particular overall look for your presentation. We suggest that you choose a particular set, and use exactly those colors, rather than designing your own combination. The color combination that you select are, with all due respect, likely to be awful, no matter what your drunken friends think.”
- Taken from “Presentation of Results” Quinn, G. and Keough, M. 2003. Experimental design and data analysis for biologists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“If ‘good design’ were evidence of a kindly, omnipotent designer, would ‘inferior design’ be evidence of an unkind, incompetent, or handicapped designer?”
- Futuyma, D. 2005. Evolution. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, Inc.