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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20ba8fd | As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; / They kill us for their sport | James Shapiro | ||
| 104d7f6 | The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 9d5fdf6 | The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 269fd32 | That was how I knew Sister Mukumbu was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| e0c96ed | Mission Impossible | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 2ab3e79 | I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke." | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| b2b6ddc | Star Trek. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| a7f8f8f | Cecile | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| ccd8043 | Heckle and Jeckle again | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| df0799b | Cecile carried on a full conversation, on and on | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| d147733 | There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| e8a8f25 | P.S. Be eleven. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 60745a6 | Although I didn't hear the door swing | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 2301cbf | I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 1e81cda | I didn't want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn't want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn't have to. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| fd1dcba | Crazy. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| f7e4c77 | the Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking...but | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 4885339 | Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking...but | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| c958917 | Every good-bye ain't gone. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 7296777 | The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| 14e96df | Some problems can only be resolved by network analysis. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 65e3d8e | Russia's intelligence network did its utmost to damage his rival's reputation, | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 094c78b | Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but connectors. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 3761fc0 | From Boston to Bordeaux, revolution was in large measure the achievement of networks of wordsmiths, the best of whom were also orators whose shouted words could rally the crowd in the square and incite them to storm the towers of the old regime. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b70ce28 | Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| acd74e2 | Had the Illuminati remained faithful to Weishaupt's original blueprint, they would long ago have been forgotten, if they had ever been heard of at all. The key to their growth and later notoriety was their infiltration of German Masonic lodges | Niall Ferguson | ||
| fcce64c | when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 48bb9ad | Trump won 'Trumpland | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 5cb50fa | Ownership of real property is second only to ownership of intellectual property | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 8358717 | Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power? | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 0c6c108 | resisting the temptation to build complexity when (as in the case of financial regulation) simplicity is a better option. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 0fb9b31 | The first 'networked era' followed the introduction of the printing press to Europe in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the end of the eighteenth century. The second -our own time -dates from the 1970s, though I argue that the technological revolution we associate with Silicon Valley was more a consequence than a cause of a crisis of hierarchical institutions. The intervening period, from the late 1790s until the late 1960s, saw .. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| d68e735 | Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small; Americans use associations to give fetes, to found seminaries, to build inns, to raise churches, to distribute books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; i.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| fe700d5 | Cities with at least one printing press in 1500 were significantly more likely to adopt Protestantism than cities without printing, but it was cities with multiple competing printers that were most likely to turn Protestant. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| bf14478 | The task assigned to the RAND* researcher Paul Baran in 1964 was to develop a communication system that would survive a Soviet nuclear attack. Baran suggested three possible structures for such a system. It could either be 'centralized', with one central hub and multiple spokes, 'decentralized', with multiple components linked loosely together by a number of weak ties, or 'distributed', like a lattice or mesh. In theory, the last option was.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| e352f99 | You ask professors to study things, but you never put them in charge of anything. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 374b519 | the Internet is merely 'the modern public square', | Niall Ferguson | ||
| f92cd86 | Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| bda242e | The first paradox of Illuminism, then, was that it was a network that craved an elaborate hierarchical structure, even as it inveighed against existing hierarchies. In his 1782 'Address to the newly promoted Illuminati dirigenti', Weishaupt set out his worldview. In the state of nature, man had been free, equal and happy; division into classes, private property, personal ambition and state formation had come later, as the 'great unholy main.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| eab4b3b | until the archives of the Masonic lodges became accessible, researchers were heavily reliant on memoirs and documents confiscated and published by the Order's foes. Amongst the materials said to have been in Franz Xaver Zwackh's possession were impressions of government seals to be used for counterfeiting, dissertations in defence of suicide, instructions for making poisonous gas and secret ink, a description of a special safe for the safeg.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| dfb7d26 | Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists, and to show that historical change often can and should be understood in terms of precisely such network-based challenges to hierarchical orders | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 1207453 | we cannot transmit ideas and behaviours much beyond our friends' friends' friends | Niall Ferguson | ||
| d144e1c | Giving the world's poor mobile telephony is proving easier than providing them with clean water - an argument, perhaps, for leaving the provision of clean water to the private sector rather than weak, corrupt governments. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 89dc26d | Usually an upbeat affair, the BCA conference in 2006 proved disturbing. Harvard professor Niall Ferguson asked a strange question: Why hadn't the recent assassination of a Russian central banker, a Thai coup d'etat, and a North Korean nuclear bomb test triggered a stock market rout? | Danielle DiMartino Booth |