"The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat]."

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Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.

— Noam Chomsky