# Steven Pinker - The Sense of Style (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41GbqIaMfGL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/58494565) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/kindle **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Steven Pinker]] **Full Title**:: The Sense of Style **Category**:: #books #readwise/books **Category Icon**:: 📚 **Highlighted**:: [[2026-02-22]] **Created**:: [[2026-03-02]] ## Highlights - THE MAIN CAUSE OF INCOMPREHENSIBLE PROSE IS THE DIFFICULTY OF IMAGINING WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR SOMEONE ELSE NOT TO KNOW SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW ([Location 1046](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00INIYG74&location=1046)) ^990631453 - Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ([Location 1064](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00INIYG74&location=1064)) ^990631454 - Call it the Curse of Knowledge: a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. ([Location 1072](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00INIYG74&location=1072)) ^990631455 - The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. ([Location 1107](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00INIYG74&location=1107)) ^990631456