You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.
Eric WeinerMusic was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.
Eric WeinerGod is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called โhuman grace.โ Somewhere along the way, weโve lost sight of this.
Eric Weiner