For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. – Christopher Columbus
These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. – Christopher Columbus
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. – Christopher Columbus
Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. – Christopher Columbus
Im fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? – Charles Cumming