Director's cut

Author: matthew-brett

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@@ -205,6 +205,17 @@ We have also updated some the examples, but we have deliberately been light in
 our edits, to give you the fresh and creative flavor of Simon's book, as he
 worked through the landscape of traditional statistics with his radical eye.
 
+## The third edition is the director's cut, where Simon is the director
+
+As you see from the section above, the largest change for this edition is to
+update the code sections to use {{< var lang >}}.  We intend this edition to be
+as close as possible to the book that Simon intended, but updated to use modern
+tools and a standard, widely-used programming language.  Read this edition as
+our service to Simon for his visionary work — this is Simon's book, and we
+(Matthew and Stéfan) intend to serve mainly as his editors and interpreters. We
+release this edition so you can see Simon's ideas updated to current
+technology.
+
 ## Who should read this book, and when
 
 As you have seen in the previous sections, this book uses a radical approach to