Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.
the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
