“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.”
“Fireflies in North America, like so many North American sorts of things, tend to be independent operators. They ignore each other.”
— Steven Strogatz
“For some reason we take pleasure in synchronizing.”
— Steven Strogatz
“It’s a deep tendency toward order in nature that opposes what we’ve all been taught about entropy. I’m not saying the law of entropy is wrong — it’s not. But there is a countervailing force in the universe — the tendency towards spontaneous order.”
— Steven Strogatz
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