Mark Bergen:

The deep learning renaissance began, like so much on the Internet, with cats.

Warren Buffett:

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

Jill Lepore:

Copyright is the elephant in the archive.

Elizabeth Kolbert:

In 2011 alone, an estimated twenty-five thousand African elephants were killed for their ivory; this comes to almost seventy a day, or nearly three an hour. Since then, an additional forty-five thousand African elephants -- about ten per cent of the total population -- have been slaughtered.

Philip Zimbardo:

There is a movie called "Experimenter," about Stanley Milgram's research, which premiered at Sundance, and the second half is confusing. At one point, Milgram walks out of his lab, and behind him is a huge elephant. I saw the director at Sundance, and I said, "Why did you have an elephant?" He said, "People like elephants."

Japan Ganesh:

Celebrities convey their egos through magisterial insouciance; David Byrne, apparently bereft of ego, is as alert as a caffeinated meerkat.

Martin McKeay:

Once you've paid, expect the vultures to start circling.

Kathryn Schulz:

The average groundhog displaces nearly two tons of soil while building its home.

Alma Guillermoprieto:

Mexico's Attorney General, Arely Gómez, stares wistfully into the black hole, as if hoping that a white rabbit might suddenly pop out of it. The rabbit, however, had already hopped onto an unknown mode of transportation a good twelve hours earlier.

Kathryn Schulz:

In the current use of "rabbit hole," we are no longer necessarily bound for a wonderland. We're just in a long attentional free fall, with no clear destination and all manner of strange things flashing past.