"The versions that we were doing of all our songs in the early days were very slow and more bluesy, like Captain Beefheart material," Mothersbaugh recalled.
Investors have always paid attention to what other investors were doing, of course, but currently they're assailed by a high-volume clang of market bellwethers twenty-four hours a day.
After all, in his eyes at least, our difficulty finding monk seals was the appalling proof of the damage those Kauai fishermen were doing, of how urgent the sanctuary deal had become.
More acutely than anyone else, Phil Dick wrote of the arms race going on between technology and humanity - of the growing distance between what we could do, and what we could comprehend about what we were doing, of the way minds were twisted by the new situations we were throwing ourselves into.
The Nobel laureates were "brilliant at what they were doing, of course," but many of them seemed like "fairly regular researchers [who] took on an interest" in a scientific question and pursued it relentlessly.
In effect, American authorities had little idea of what they were doing, of who was who.
