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By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.
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Clayton M. Christensen

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What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.
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Clayton M. Christensen

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I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.
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Clayton M. Christensen

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I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
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Clayton M. Christensen

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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Alice Walker

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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
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Minna Antrim

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All art is theft.
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David Shields

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Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
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David Shields

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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
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David Shields

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I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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David Shields

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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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David Shields

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Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
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David Shields

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I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.
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David Shields

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I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
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David Shields

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The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
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David Shields

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Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.
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David Shields

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The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.
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David Shields

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My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
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David Shields

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Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.
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David Shields

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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
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David Shields

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I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
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David Shields

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I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
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David Shields

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I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful.
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David Shields

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What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.
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David Shields

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I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.
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David Shields

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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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David Shields

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The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.
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David Shields

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Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.
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David Shields

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The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.
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David Shields

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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
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David Shields

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We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
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David Shields

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In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.
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David Shields

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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
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David Shields

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I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.
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David Shields

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I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
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David Shields

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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
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David Shields

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In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
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David Shields

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During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.
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David Shields

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You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.
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David Shields

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It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
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David Shields

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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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David Shields

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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
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David Shields

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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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David Shields

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Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.
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David Shields

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The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly center-left version of reality.
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David Shields

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Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.
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David Shields

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Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.
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David Shields

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