Skunk Works Book Quotes

#1. Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

Nigel Short

#2. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#4. Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book,
but to use our books to grow Christlike character

Tony Reinke

#5. Finally, she let herself feel how much she had lost, how much she would miss.

Colm Toibin

#6. I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

Rachel Dratch

#7. While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

Newton Lee

#8. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Lewis Hyde

#9. Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

John McCarthy

#10. The success of very important matters often depends on doing or not doing something that seems trivial. Even in little things, therefore, you must be cautious and thoughtful. Francesco Guicciardini

Bohdi Sanders