Quote of the Week

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involved Russia."

"Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops."

"There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. The contingency we have considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange looks improbable; what is improbable need not be considered seriously."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."