Greg A. Brown

“Google’s famous search algorithm emulates the principle of scholarly citation—counting up and evaluating earlier links in order to steer users toward the source that others have already found helpful. In a sense, the system resembles nothing more than trillions of old-fashioned footnotes”
Anthony Grafton on the digitization of books in The New Yorker

“Representative Tom Tancredo, another long-shot GOP candidate, tells me that after a debate in New Hampshire, one of his staffers walked up to a guy in a shark costume and asked him if he was a Ron Paul supporter. ‘No. They’re all nuts,’ replied the shark. ‘I’m just a guy in a shark suit.’”
Time Magazine

“‘Esoteric morality’ is a contradiction in terms.”
Kurt Baier

“please let me OUT”
Message scratched into the table of the study room I’m working in right now