Get Everything Done

Since the quote appears in the "To Think About..." spot which is changed regularly, I'd better copy it so others know what Alan is referring to:

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." Alfred North Whitehead

I think Alan's point is actually what Whitehead meant. To put the quote in context, it's from his "An Introduction to Mathematics" (1911) and he says elsewhere in the same chapter: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."

And no, I haven't read the book!

Cricket:

http://musicnotation.org/

http://clairnote.org/