Harlan Quinn

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Industry Telecommunications
Occupation Engineer
Introduction The Picture is of the Philosophical clown from "The Twilight Zone" episode entitled "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit". As you can see, he's got his thinking cap on. Would you like to play a game of dialogue?
Interests Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Complexity Theory, Cognitive Science, Comparative Religions, Data Analysis, Decision Theory, Epistemology, Game Theory, Humor, Informal Logic, Information and Data Quality, Information Theory, Information Science and Technology, Irony, Linguistics, Philosophy, Puzzles, Programming, Probability, Persuasion, Science, Statistics, etc.
Favorite Movies Network, The Shining, The Matrix, Dr. Strangelove, Twilight Zone (tv), Animal House, Talledega Nights, House(tv), Numb3rs(tv), Greys Anatomy(tv), 99% of all Monty Python efforts, Time Bandits, Rocky
Favorite Music Rock, Progressive Rock (Ozric Tentacles, etc), Punk/Thrash, Goa-Psy Trance, Jazz, everything else but country and rap is fine
Favorite Books Secrets of Mental Math, How To Measure Anything, Journey to Data Quality, The Thinkers Toolkit, Mind Performance Hacks, Argumentation schemes for presumptive reasoning, Attacking Faulty Reasoning, Commitment in Dialogue, A Systematic Theory of Argumentation: The pragma-dialectical approach, Arguments From Ignorance, The Uses of Argument, Introduction to Reasoning, How We Know What Isn't So, How to Think About Weird Things, Logical Self-defense, Informal Logic, Practical Reasoning, Abductive Reasoning, Influence. Science and Practice, Persuasion, The Art of Deception

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

Flexibility because it gives me more options.