I feel very Midwestern at my core.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. – STEVE JOBS.

What she missed the most about the person she’d been, Maya realized, was her hope for a coming world that turned out never to have been possible. She was nostalgic for an imaginary future.

The adversarial system,” that’s what it was called. The attorneys on each side did their best to win, no-holds-barred – and whatever emerged from the mess of broken limbs was called justice.

The United States was of an anti-intellectual bent. And yet the two most technologically advanced laboratories in the world, as far as Paul could tell, were no longer in Paris’s Louvre or London’s Burlington House. They were now in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were operated by two self-made men with no formal training at all.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. – KARL POPPER A.

Arthur looked deeply into the boy’s clear blue eyes and scanned the contours of his handsome face. Arthur could hear something, faintly, in the distance. A rushing sound. A crash of water against rock. He wasn’t sure if it was real or not, but he heard it all the same. Torrents of water rushing over a cliff. He tuned his ears to the noise and recognized the tone. He steadied his hand and listened to the sound, from the back of his mind, of the Reichenbach Falls.

Women now seek to involve themselves in the life of their government because their government has involved itself in their lives!

Paul had always wanted to be a prodigy. But what no one ever told him was that prodigies don’t feel like prodigies; they feel old. They feel like has-beens just at the moment that they’re said to be blossoming.

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery.