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Duncan Watts: "I am comfortable with the idea that the outcomes we get are often largely arbitrary. [...] We think there is something we can call quality and it is intrinsic to people and books, and it is timeless and the results we see in the world reflects this quality. If you find it disturbing that that is not how the world works, you should not become a sociologist."

In an extraordinarly interesting Washington Post article on current network dynamics research.

"The decisive factor, [Duncan & al.] show in a series of mathematical models, is not the presence of influential people but people who are easily influenced."