Full of Sound and Fury by Garrick van Buren Comments Off on Full of Sound and Fury “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” – Wallace Stanley Sayre “This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.” “That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 25-28 “In an infinite universe, the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” – Douglas Adams