Savage Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology and how much by cultural exposure.

A counter revolution can be positive or negative in its consequences depending, in part, on the beneficent or pernicious character of the revolution that gets reversed.

We can think of Chinese restaurants perhaps as Linux sort of an open source thing, right, where ideas from one person can be copied and propagated across the entire system, that there can be specialized versions of Chinese food, you know, depending on the region.