Christakis Yale Quotes

#1. Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

William Henry Maule

#2. You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

Heather Brooke

#3. If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

Michael Crichton

#4. Why give up before we try?

Alicia Keys

#5. Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

#7. [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Molly Haskell

#8. I am grateful for the chaos. Grateful for the immense change that it brought. Grateful that now, I am in a pleasant state of calm.

Alessandra Torre

#9. He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Matthew Pearl

#10. Like how could you do nothing,
and say, 'I'm doing my best.'
How could you take almost everything,
and then come back for the rest?
How could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead,
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as I agreed?

Ani DiFranco

#11. A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Bjorn Lomborg