Very few people who are connected to the internet will tell you that the rise of the search engine has increased their ignorance of a great many things. After all, before the democratization of the search engine and the world-wide web we couldn’t Google things. We had to open books, if we had the right [...]
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Have these two ducks gathered?
I doubt it. But they might have gathered if the duckling was facing the other direction. Close proximity may be the only feature that is present at all gatherings (although, possibly, some people might gather for a conference call, even though each person is at least 100km from any other). Another typical feature of gatherings [...]
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Chinese Interrogator (questioning hugely successful artist Ai Weiwei) Anyone can call himself an artist. I think you are at most an art worker. Garry Kasparov (from How Life Imitates Chess, 2007) The virtue of innovation only rarely compensates for the vice of inadequacy. Ernest Dichter (from The Strategy of Desire, 1960) You would be amazed [...]