Many technologies take twenty years to become an overnight success.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The damn guy just sits there waiting for a case study!
- Manager, about a Harvard MBA

Economics is all about how people make choices; sociology is all about how they don’t have any choices to make.

This she might not attempt. It was unladylike. Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could achieve much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point.

A one-liner:
Boy: ‘Care to dance?’
Girl: ‘No, I came here to play basketball.’
Boy: (Crumbles)

A comeback:
Boy: ‘Care to dance?’
Girl: ‘No, I came here to play basketball.’
Boy: ‘Sorry, I should have guessed by the way you’re dressed.’

A retired four-star general told me that, despite the eight thousand British troops in the region, “the Iranians could take Basra with ten mullahs and one sound truck.”