wedrifid comments on Home Economics - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Ritalin 07 July 2013 09:30PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 July 2013 09:17:22AM 5 points [-]

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." (Erasmus of Rotterdam)

The invention of the internet might have changed his priorities.

Comment author: advancedatheist 08 July 2013 08:35:20PM 2 points [-]

Erasmus lived a generation after the invention of printing, but books still cost a lot relative to people's incomes back then because he lived too near the beginning of the experience curve in book production. He probably had highly developed mnemonic skills to memorize books in libraries.