Searching for some good ideas on mapping industry networks, Google popped a Jay Cross page at me from 2003 on Social Network Analysis. (A great time of discovery about SNA.) He reports on a talk by Mark Granovetter that he heard at the inaugural meeting of the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE: is-nay):

We’re all involved in social networking every day. It’s like the character in Moliere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme who is astounded to discover that he has been speaking in prose all his life.

This is of course, apropos of my earlier post about fish on the distinction of “network” as something that we are in all the time and over which we can gain some control by better understanding that we are, in fact, in the soup.

(The quote about does kind of remind me of the opening voice-over on Numb3rs, “We all use math everyday.”)