It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Were not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. – Nate Silver
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. – Arthur Erickson
That save from Peles header was the best I ever made. I didnt have any idea how famous it would become – to start with, I didnt even realise Id made it at all. – Gordon Banks