Deonna Hodges

“Enrico Fermi—who created the first nuclear reactor beneath the University of Chicago football field—constantly made back-of-the-envelope estimates to help him approach problems.*”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“Our most fundamental thought processes have changed to accommodate increasing complexity and the need to derive new patterns rather than rely only on familiar ones. Our conceptual classification schemes provide a scaffolding for connecting knowledge,”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“items. The more they had moved toward modernity, the more powerful their abstract thinking, and the less they had to rely on their concrete experience of the world as a reference point.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“In narrow enough worlds, humans may not have much to contribute much longer. In more open-ended games, I think they certainly will. Not just games, in open ended real-world problems we’re still crushing the machines.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World