Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. -Jill Lepore Computers
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. -Jill Lepore Science
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. -Jill Lepore Imagination
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race. -Jill Lepore Sports
