He picked something out of everything he read. – Pliny

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. – Author unknown

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. – Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise. – William Irwin Thompson