[Ads-l] Dialog: "How do you go about having good ideas?" "You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for your response, LH.
The Lewis Carroll quotation is genuine. It appeared in a letter he
wrote in 1879. The letter was reprinted in a collection published by
Lewis Carroll’s nephew in 1898.

Year: 1898
Book Title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)
Author / Editor: Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Letter From: Charles L. Dodgson
Letter To: Kathleen Eschwege
Letter Date: October 24, 1879
Start Page 413, Quote Page 416
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London, England
Database: Google Books Full View

https://books.google.com/books?id=BHI1AQAAMAAJ&q=%22am+fond%22#v=snippet&q=%22am%20fond%22&f=false

[Begin excerpt]
Well, so I hope I may now count you as one of my child-friends. I am
fond of children (except boys), and have more child-friends than I
could possibly count on my fingers, even if I were a centipede (by the
way, have they fingers? I'm afraid they're only feet, but, of course,
they use them for the same purpose, and that is why no other insects,
except centipedes, ever succeed in doing Long Multiplication) . . .
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:48 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Very nice!  Pauling's algorithm somehow reminds me of the line attributed
> (I trust accurately; I couldn't confirm via QI) to Lewis Carroll/Charles
> Dodgson:  "I am fond of children--except boys"
> LH
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is a follow-up message to the thread initiated by Stephen
> > Goranson on March 18, 2023. I have now posted an article on the topic.
> > Citations begin in 1960. The full quotation appears in 1969.
> >
> > Full version:
> > https://quoteinvestigator.medium.com/b9c95e18299c
> >
> > Abbreviated version:
> > https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/03/24/ideas/
> >
> > While researching I came across a website section created by the
> > Valley Library of Oregon State University in Corvallis which contains
> > manuscripts, letters, audio clips, and more about Linus Pauling.
> >
> > As mentioned in the QI article, the archive includes a document dated
> > 1973 containing the quotation and a 1977 audio clip from a Nova
> > television program during which Pauling speaks the quotation.
> >
> >
> > http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/blood/notes/1973a2.11.html
> >
> > http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/bond/audio/1977v.66-ideas.html
> >
> > [Begin acknowledgement]
> > Great thanks to Stephen Goranson whose message led QI to formulate
> > this question and perform this exploration.
> > [End acknowledgement]
> >
> > Garson
> >
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