A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

~George Moore

Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

~Oscar Wilde

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

Much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker." -- James Surowiecki