Robert D. Putnam Quotes
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
Putnam, Robert D., and Lewis M. Feldstein. Better Together: Restoring the American Community. Simon & Schuster, 2003, p. 34.
The oft-made criticism of American intelligence efforts was that they do not connect the dots meaning that the information pieces were never put together. This was the major criticism of intelligence prior to September 11.
Robert David Putnam (born 1941) is an American political scientist. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits. His most famous (and controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the United States has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social, associational, and political life (social capital) since the 1960s, with serious negative consequences. In March 2015, he published a book called Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis that looked at issues of inequality of opportunity in the United States. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Putnam is the third most frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.
