"It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle."

“The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.”

Source : Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

“If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.”

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

“Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.8, Macmillan

“Your desire is your prayer.”

“Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.”