Charles Darwin: Looking back, I think it was more difficult to see what the problems were than to solve them.
Caterina Fake: Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on.
David Hilbert: A perfect formulation of a problem is already half its solution.
Decius: It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.
Joan Didion: Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception.
Decius: Life is too short to spend 2300 hours a year working on someone else's idea of what the right problems are.
Colin Powell: Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
Kyle Steiner: You know, I didn't have to do shit. I didn't have to go in the army. I didn't have to become airborne infantry. I didn't have to do any of that. But I did, you know?
Rustin Cohle: The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.
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