(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be stud...
By looking at the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us, we totally miss the Point–like the two on the road to Emmaus. As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing ...
Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off ...
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess,...
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and...
Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.
And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?” “If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.
... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.
The most important events in every age never reach the history books.
Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils
Saturated Arrogance ...she rebuked those about her in darkness did she dwell a pathetic history all mortal man would tell..
But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
