“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
What we learned from 5 million books
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“What we’re left with is a collection of five million books, 500 billion words, a string of characters a thousand times longer than the human genome — a text which, when written out, would stretch from here to the Moon and back 10 times over — a veritable shard of our cultural genome.”
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
What we learned from 5 million books
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