“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”

“Science gets most of its information by the process of reductionism, exploring the details, then the details of the details, until all the smallest bits of the structure, or the smallest parts of the mechanism, are laid out for counting and scrutiny. Only when this is done can the investigation be extended to encompass the whole organism or the entire system. So we say.
Sometimes it seems that we take a loss, working this way.”

“The successful managers know that the best way for their people to learn and grow is through experience and that means taking chances and making errors.”

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics.”

“The best way to take control of your future is by planning for it. Visualize your future self doing big things, and your hunger for success will grow.”

“I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.”

“Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time…”

“A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.”