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Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Calcutta diarist William Hickey’s
Tristram Hunt • Ten Cities That Made an Empire
Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Every contact leaves a trace. That was how they put it. Otherwise known in the trade as ‘Locard’s Principle of Exchange’. Jack Collingworth had taught him this, the DI who had taken Hobbes under his wing back in the sixties. Exchange, lad! Monsieur Locard got that spot on. Tit for tat. You just need to work it out. The perpetrator always leaves som
... See moreJeff Noon • House With No Doors
“Money’s never a problem, not if you’ve got half a brain.” “No?” “Money? Course not. Identify a demand, handle its supply, make your customers grateful, kill off the opposition.”