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81 " Competition,' argued Paul, 'does no one any good. A friendly monopoly, on the other hand…' Morgan smiled. "
― Graham Moore , The Last Days of Night
82 " Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. —THOMAS EDISON "
83 " The genius of each of these men was not in the labors of his own hands, it was in the efficiency of the system he had built. "
84 " Don’t make a sour face,” suggested Westinghouse. “With a little luck we just might make something out of you yet. "
85 " As always, they were most together when disobeying the rules. "
― Graham Moore , The Holdout
86 " The United States was of an anti-intellectual bent. "
87 " There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. "
88 " Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. —THOMAS EDISON "
89 " Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. —STEVE JOBS "
90 " Paul was an attorney. And this was what his as yet brief career in the law had done to his brain. He was comforted by minutiae. His mortal fears could be assuaged only by an encyclopedic command of detail. Paul "
91 " Maya repeated Wayne’s words back to him. “ ‘Because she looks honest.’ ” “That’s what "
92 " My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't. "
― Graham Moore , The Sherlockian
93 " The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it. —NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON "
94 " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. —STEVE JOBS "
95 " Such people could afford to choose for themselves what to be miserable about. "
96 " No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. —KARL POPPER "
97 " You think I have to identify with Bobby Nock in all this. That our blackness is the most defining feature about us. It’s okay, Maya. It doesn’t make you a racist. This is the craziest thing about good, well-intentioned white people, isn’t it? What lengths you’ll go to not to come off as in any way racist. Heavens! So instead of saying, ‘Bobby is a man and Trisha is a woman, so they don’t have much in common,’ you’re saying, ‘Bobby is black and Trisha is black, so that must be what they have in common.’ What’s the salient feature? The defining part of an object? "
98 " And yet as pristine as she appeared, her demeanor was not delicate. She was no porcelain doll. She was a distant glacier. Remote, quiet, and yet possessed of great and unknowable activity beneath the surface. "
99 " We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best. —STEVE JOBS "
100 " We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes. —TIM BERNERS-LEE "