“Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.”
James Nasmyth (1808–1890) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
Source: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 52 (in 2010 edition)
“Everything is interesting, everything does connect, but anything don't work.”
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Richard Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
From Omni interview, "The Smartest Man in the World" (1979) p. 203
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
“We are connecting everything to everything.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Variant: Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor
Source: "Welcome to the Internet" Inside (2021)
“The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet
On her worldly view of poetry in “Poet Lucille Clifton: 'Everything Is Connected'” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124113507 in NPR (2010 Feb 28)
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Source: Black Elk Speaks (1961), Ch. 17 : The First Cure
Context: Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
“In our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else.”
Tim Flannery book The Weather Makers
Source: The Weather Makers (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 160)