Tim Anderson

“As psychologist Ellen Winner, one of the foremost authorities on gifted children, noted, no savant has ever been known to become a “Big-C creator,” who changed their field.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.”
― Donna J. Haraway

“AI systems are like savants.” They need stable structures and narrow worlds.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World