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The Mission Statement of the United States
by noteworthy at 7:22 am EDT, May 14, 2010

Ben Bernanke:



We can look inward for answers, but, at least for someone trained as a social scientist, the most direct way to tackle the question is just to go out and ask people -- lots of people.

danah boyd:

You can count until you're blue in the face, but unless you actually talk to people, you're not going to know why they do what they do.

Nicholas A. Christakis & James Fowler:

Each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%.


Paul Graham asks what living in your city tells you. Living in the north Perimeter area for 6 odd years now has told me that everybody makes way, way more money than I do. It's not inspiring so much as it makes you sympathize with class warfare.

Randall Munroe:


To spend my life restlessly producing instead of sedately consuming?

Is there an app for that?



That feeling is called flow.


Winifred Gallagher:


Charles Munger:


Caterina Fake:


Atul Gawande:

Let us look for the positive deviants.



Freeman Dyson:

You must have principles that you're willing to die for.

Cormac McCarthy:


Lauren Clark:


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