From Adam's Tongue: How Humans made language, how language made humans.
"What makes interdisciplinary work so hard is that any academic discipline acts like a straitjacket, forcing you to look only in certain directions, blocking other perspectives from view. It takes a good deal of conscious effort, plus a lot of soaking yourself in other people's literature, to overcome this state of affairs."
I actually didn't finish this book because he just kept driving at his point like a salesman and I decided I wasn't interested in it. But I do like this quote and the idea of the restrictions your academic discipline puts on you.
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