Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. – John Dos Passos
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. – Fareed Zakaria
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
