"Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties:……" — Charles C. Mann
"Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering."
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Charles C. Mann
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14 Quotes by Charles C. Mann
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign…
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of…
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such…
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of…
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The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they…
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More Bewildering Quotes
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing…
— Willa Cather
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never…
— Ernest Rutherford
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It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of…
— Carl Jung
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem…
— Unknown Author
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
— Peter De Vries
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same…
— George Bernard Shaw
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with…
— Itzhak Perlman
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and…
— Frank Rich
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