"It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness."

-- James Gleick

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“If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.”
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.”
“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brotherâ€™s cousinâ€™s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesnâ€™t matter that she didnâ€™t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
“You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.”
“The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.”
“Memory is a poet, not an historian.”
“But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.”
“Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.”

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