Is everything you say here true? Should I take it seriously?
PrevNode LinkNextThe answer is that not everything that I wrote, quoted and/or placed on my homepage and on other kinds of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) mediums is still something I agree with (i.e: I changed my mind since then), or should be taken too seriously (i.e: may be amusing or thought provoking but isn’t really something I agree with), or that should be taken as an unbreakable rule (i.e: because such works are usually guidelines rather than something that should be taken as gospel). So please take them with a grain of salt, and apply your judgement.
Naturally, it does not help that I often omit the dates of creation and last update from a resource, and that I sometimes neglect to add a “Recent Update” note at the top of the page when it becomes irrelevant. If you have the necessary technical skills, you can peruse the pages’ history in the version control repository.
Bill Gates admitted that he said some stupid things and some wrong things
too. Also note the Hegelian dialectic (= Thesis → anti-thesis → synthesis).
Are the historical descriptions accurate?
Node LinkFirst of all, note that I often base my conclusions on limited data and gut feeling. Furthermore, I often find it necessary to modernise and idealise the historical or imaginary (or real-life) people or events, due to our world's values and mine progressing.
Otherwise, note that per the classic film Rashomon and my own experience, different people remember past events differently.