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1 " Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth.By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task.It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter. "
― Peter Rogers , Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard
2 " One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by " anyone”. A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against " the others" . It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent " access" (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them. "
