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For me, the last 20 percent of a book’s improvement takes 95 percent of the effort—all in the editing. I can honestly say not one page I’ve ever published appears anywhere close to how it came out in first draft. A poem might take sixty versions. I am not much of a writer, but I am a stubborn little bulldog of a reviser.
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
Facebook’s own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day. Did you get that? Not 600,000 accounts per year or even per month, but per day.
Future Crimes
Marc Goodman
but among scientists there is no correlation between IQ and scientific productivity. Indeed, a number of Nobel Prize–winning scientists have had IQs that would not even qualify them for Mensa, an organization whose members must have a measured IQ of at least 132, a number that puts you in the upper 2 percentile of the population. Richard Feynman, one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century, had an IQ of 126; James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, had an IQ of 124; and William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the invention of the transistor, had an IQ of 125.
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Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
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