Intellectual Seeker Pillows

Michel Foucault

"Stop Calling Me 'A Cassandra'. You don't know any other Cassandras!"

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'Niche apres tenure. Niche before and you're toast.'

Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov

In case of emergency: A panel of pundits.

Hypatia

"... and I have a follow-up question regarding rawhide."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Fear/Knowledge

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

Thinking Gears

Eternal Student.

' A good idea '

Sometimes he just stood back and admired the breathtaking scenery of his life.

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

The Bookworm

"Teach yourself what you don't know you don't know."

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

Historical memory is on life support.

Robotic Man

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

Interdisciplinary studies.

Do your research!

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."