"The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong."

“Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision be proved right and true.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

“The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Anyone who thought he had a bright idea rushed out to try it out on a colleague. Groups of two or more could be seen every day in offices, before blackboards or even in corridors, arguing vehemently about these 'brain storms.' It is doubtful whether any paper ever emerged for publication that had not run the gauntlet of such criticism. The whole department thus became far greater than the sum of its individual members.”

“I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.”

“The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.”

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”

“Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.”

“When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.”

“Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.87, Usborne Publishing Ltd