The Voices! Those Blasted Voices! I Can’t Stop The Voices In My Heeeeeaaaaad!

“‘I have this little game I play in my head when someone gets an appointment,’ said Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s ‘Hardball.’ ‘And I say, “Now, how did that happen?” And then someone will say, “Well, they went to school together,” or “They live next door to each other,” or “Their wives are friends.” And you go, “Oh, yeah,” and it clicks.’ On the other hand, he said, ‘serendipity is a big part of our lives, but it grows in direct proportion to sociability.'”
– If They Gave Nobels for Networking. . ., by Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times, June 5, 2005.
Further Listening: Psychoanalyis: What Is It?, by Prince Paul
Related: Letters to a Young Blogger, by David Maria Brooks