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Words of wisdom by Tim Pulju

2015-09-06 20:58 -0300. Tags: life, mind, random, em-portugues

Tim: … I'm gonna pick number 3 … also because if I just agree with everyone else and we're all correct then I attain no glory from that, but if I disagree with everyone else and I'm correct then I'll have great glory, and I think I'll put it in my gravestone, so I'm gonna say that number 1 and number 2 are correct and number 3 is false.

[…]

Trey: Now, on to Tim's great glory, did you consider the possibility of great shame?

Tim: I did, but I've lived with great shame for so much of my life that it won't be no great burden to add further shame to myself.

– Language Made Difficult, Vol. XVII

(By the way, o Tim Pulju apresentou uma TED talk mui bacaninha chamada The Uncanny Science of Linguistic Reconstruction em 2011.)

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