Tim Anderson

“(It bears mentioning that cheerleading actually began as an exclusively male pursuit. Schools would select the most popular male students to rally up crowds with megaphones during games. It was only during World War II, when so many college men were drafted, that women began to replace them—a controversial move that some protested, fretting that for a girl to use her voice in such a way was unfeminine. When the men came back, they no longer wanted to participate in an activity that had been taken over by women.)”
― Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

“The ultimate lesson of the question was that detailed prior knowledge was less important than a way of thinking.”
― 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