Look at its scope: it has counterintuitive marriage counseling, linguistic anthropology, a dour Modernist aphorism and Zen video-game wisdom.
Now he is a lawyer who has developed a board game, Proverbial Wisdom, in which players draw sketches to illustrate famous sayings while others try to guess the sayings.
It may sound like the daftest moment to introduce a game using the wisdom of crowds to judge the value of a home especially when for so long popular wisdom in America has been that house prices do not fall.
In fact this match was a fine example of how the fast-breaking style of football at this World Cup bypasses the accepted registers of statistics-based football analysis that flourished in the previous mini-age of the possession game, the received wisdom that x amount of possession, plus y goal attempts proves that z were the better team.
Without descending into the Washington parlor game of conventional wisdom about what this announcement signifies for the horse race of who's up and who's down, I would like to reflect on the matter.
With so much riding on the must-win game, some questioned the wisdom of giving the Poles a bigger voice at Wembley, but Gerrard has no concerns.
Now, after four years, the Nissan GT Academy, a joint venture between Sony and Nissan and named for the Gran Turismo game, has changed accepted wisdom.
So it was here Thursday night, as the Giants — consistently inconsistent in splitting their first two games — produced their most dominant performance of the season in Week 3 despite frequently using a lineup of players that entered the game with the collective wisdom of a typical freshman seminar.
"When the NCAA first adopted the 12th-game exemption, the conventional wisdom was that it would allow schools greater flexibility to schedule more interesting non-conference match-ups against other top schools," said Paul Steinbach, a senior editor at Athletic Business magazine who has written extensively on guarantee games.
Perhaps Conway's bestselling book ever was Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (first published in 1982), a collection of wisdom about games which, in early August, is being feted at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City, celebrating Conway and his co-authors, UC Berkeley's Elwyn Berlekamp and Calgary's Richard Guy.
