Authoring a PhD

Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything
(London: Abacus, 2000).
20. St Thomas Aquinas, 
Summa Theologica: A Concise Translation
(London: Methuen, 1991), edited by T. McDermott, p. 439.
21. Blaise Pascal, quoted in Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life
, p. 216.
22. Immanuel Kant, 
The Critique of Pure Reason
(Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1986), p. 338.
23. Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, 
Great Writings of Goethe
(New
York: Meridian, 1958), edited by Stephen Spender, p. 272.
24. W. H. Auden, quoted in S. and K. Baker, 
The Idiot’s Guide to Project
Management
(Indianapolis: Macmillan, 2000), second edition, p. 142.
25. F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in Baker and Baker, 
The Idiot’s Guide to
Project Management
, p. 272.
26. Neil Simon, quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 102.
27. John Dewey, 
Democracy and Education
(New York: Macmillan,
1916), p. 140.
Chapter 7
Handling attention points: data, charts
and graphics
1. National Audit Office, 
Presenting Data in Reports
(London: National
Audit Office, 1998), p. 1.
2. Radiohead, ‘Karma Police’ from their CD 
OK Computer
(London:
Parlophone, 1997).
3. Quoted in L. D. Eigen and J. P. Siegel, 
Dictionary of Political
Quotations
(London: Robert Hale, 1994), p. 470.
4. National Audit Office, 
Presenting Data in Reports
(London: NAO,
1999), p. 10.
5. See A. S. C. Ehrenberg, 
A Primer in Data Reduction
(Chichester:
Wiley, 1982) for a full set of examples).
6. Greg Evans in his science fiction novel 
Diaspora
(London, Orion
Books, 1997), p. 36. Evans’s original quotation is in the past tense,
but I have rephrased it in the present tense. The quote describes how
virtual entities called ‘citizens’ in future electronic communities
called polises (that is, identities ‘born’ from computer images of
original human personalities), learn maths.

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7. My favourite sources are now dated but still useful works, such as
Catherine Marsh, 
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for
Social Scientists
(Cambridge: Polity, 1988); Ehrenberg, 
A Primer in
Data Reduction
; B. H. Erickson and T. A. Nozanchuk, 
Understanding
Data: An Introduction to Exploratory and Confirmatory Data Analysis
for Students in the Social Sciences
(Milton Keynes: Open University
Press, 1979); John W. Tukey, 
Exploratory Data Analysis
(Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 1977); and Frederick Mosteller and John W. Tukey,
Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
(Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977).
8. See Tukey, 
Exploratory Data Analysis
, pp. 221–2.
9. Umberto Eco, 
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
(London: Verso, 1997), translated by Alastair McEwan, p. 83.
Chapter 8
The end-game: finishing your 
doctorate
1. Howard S. Becker, 
Writing for Social Scientists
(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1986), p. 122.
2. Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in J. P. Mayer, 
Prophet of the Mass Age
(London: Dent, 1939), p. 123.
3. Blaise Pascal, 
Pensées
(London: Dent, 1932), p. 7, Thought number 19.
4. Robert Browning, from his poem ‘Andrea del Sarto (called “The
Faultless Poet”)’, line 78: ‘Well, less is more Lucrezi, I am judged’.
For the complete poem, see: www.libraryutoronto.ca/intel/rp/
poems/browning12.html. The catchphrase ‘less is more’ was picked
up and made famous as a motto of modernist architecture by Mies
van der Rohe, in the