one of my favorite lines from Lanham

"No idea comes to us without traces of the company it has kept. We have always wished in the the West, and especially in America, that this were not so" (19).

One of my favorites because it highlights the sociality (word?) of ideas interacting with one another. They're not objects, they're not property, they're instead keeping each other company.

Lanham, Richard A. The Economics of Attention. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.