“The One is a cruel invention.” — Alain de Botton
“This happens a lot—people travel and hey find places they like so much, they think they’ve risen to their best selves just by being there.” — Joan Silber
“Reading is an infection, a burrowing into the brain: books contaminate, metaphorically, and even microbiologically.” — Jill Lepore
“In the case of an exponential creep-up, like Moore’s Law, the bend in the curve could look like a jump if you took your eye off the ball at the wrong time.” — Neal Stephenson
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” — Tacitus
“It is the opposite which is good to us.” — Heraclitus