"It’s a parts list... If I gave you the parts list for the Boeing 777 and it had 100,000 parts, I don’t think you could screw it together and you certainly wouldn’t understand why it flew."
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Eric Lander, geneticist. The Quest for a Perfect Society, Awake! magazine, September 22, 2000.
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