The greatest intellectual ? [via]

the best scientists aren't the ones who know the most data; they're the ones who know what they're looking for

but I have to disagree with this, at least I hope it isn't true.

There's a kind of an assumption that if somebody wrote it on the internet, it's true

I kinda think so...he's the sharpest blade ever to cut through alot of ingrained bullshit. I'm liking Friedman's "The World is Flat" as a counterbalance in perspective.