When you're learning, what you want to do is study something. Study it hard by focusing intently. Then take a break or at least change your focus to something different for awhile. During this time of seeming relaxation, your brain's diffuse mode has a chance to work away in the background and help you out with your conceptual understanding. Your, your neural mortar in some sense has a chance to dry. If you don't do this, if instead, you learn by cramming, your knowledge base will look more like this, all in a jumble with everything confused, a poor foundation.
— You'd have to keep a thing like this underwraps. I mean, just think about it, okay? First, the stock market would go. Then the economy, boom! The dollar, boom! And then pandemonium in the streets. War, genocide, ba-ba-ba-ba, boom, boom, boom!
— Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.
— And every once in a while, some poor little sucker tries. Well, like these guys, boom, boom! [pulls down a screen of posted obituaries] Every one of these guys, dead, dead, dead.
— [notices one of them] Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's Professor Meyers.
— He ran the Atlantis shuttle program. Why, did you know him?
— Yeah, he helped me with research on my book.
— Well, that must have been before this "accident."
— Meyers is dead?
— Oh, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners and he had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where and why... He even sent me a map.
— A map for what Charlie? What's the map for?
— They're building spaceships, man.
— Shit, man, I have to go because I gotta get back to Earth.
— These exhibits you're after, Mr. Rezendes, they're very sensitive records.
— With all due respect, Your Honor, that's not the question. The records are public.
— Maybe so, but tell me, where is the editorial responsibility in publishing records of this nature?
— Well, where's the editorial responsibility in not publishing them?
News travel slowly, when communications are fancy.
— Is there anything I should know?
— You're asking me how a watch works. For now, just keep an eye on the time.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Information is the key. You need to learn your enemy's strengths and strategies. You need to learn which of your friends are not your friends.
Je veux les portes grandements ouvertes,
Des amis pour parler de leur peine, de leur joie
Pour qu'ils leur filent des infos qui ne divisent pas.
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
I'm putting my best man onto it. I can always rely on John to send me the relevant data, as he never understands a word of it.
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