"I can't not put humor in a book."

-- Albert Brooks

“My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.”
“For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.”
“I have a friend â€” or had a friend, now dead â€” Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about itâ€¦ and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and itâ€™s a good thing too.”
“Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.”
“If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And they grow up as young people unable to take anything from a printed page, or they become bored because they haven't discovered the nuances, the differences of opinion, the differences of approach between one author and another. Children can be trusted to skip what they don't like in a book. That's perfectly all right. But to have it all reduced to the supposedly twelve-year-old mind of the adult public is what I object to.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Today I am discovering who I am.Â Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me.Â Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.”
“Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.”
“The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.188, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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