I Like This Rule

And, of course, I like "eclecticism and cross-fertilization."

That these ideas were spilling across disciplinary borders was due in large part to McCulloch, a dynamo of eclecticism and cross-fertilization. . . . [he] invited experts in these fields, as well as mathematics and electrical engineering. He instituted a Noah's Ark rule, inviting two of each species so that speakers would always have someone present who could see through their jargon.

From The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick