It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

People don't rise from nothing.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.