To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. Joshua Foer Read Quote
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs. Paul Samuelson Read Quote
A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they’ll do is say, ‘You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.’ And my answer is always, ‘I hope so.’ Penn Jillette Read Quote
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that’s built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant Read Quote
I am just enjoying the attention I am getting. It has been very overwhelming. Saqib Saleem Read Quote
I’m the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I’ve seen a lot of hardships. Imran Tahir Read Quote
I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Vivienne Westwood Read Quote