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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
Here are the best quotes we heard from our sources today. (Click through to read the full stories.)
Anne Libera (pictured above), a theater director who studies comedy: “You have to risk, you have to fail—that’s how you know where the edge is.”
Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who studies communication: “You need to suppress your empathy ‘gene’ in order to participate fully in the mobile revolution.”
Mark Taylor, who studies parasitic diseases: “You get exploding nodules, and scrotal inflammation. You don’t want that.”
(Previous quotes from our sources here)
About the Author
Rosa Inocencio Smith is a former assistant editor at The Atlantic.