Graham Moore > Quotes

“Per Arthur, inventare quelle trame era un gioco. Era lui contro il suo pubblico, lo scrittore impegnato in un’eterna battaglia con i lettori, e poteva esserci un solo vincitore. O il lettore indovinava il finale prima del tempo o Arthur lo beffava fino all’ultima pagina. Era una lotta tra intelletti, e una guerra che di rado perdeva lui. Be’, se il lettore era abbastanza acuto, ovviamente risolveva l’enigma dopo poche pagine! In cuor suo, però, Arthur sapeva che i lettori non volevano vincere. Preferivano mettere alla prova la propria sagacia confrontandosi coraggiosamente con l’autore, sperando di perdere e rimanere sorpresi dal finale. Così la lotta era lunga e spossante.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. —BILL GATES”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Wanting to know. Everybody wants to know. But maybe growing up means accepting that you're not always able to.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Pressant le pas, il atteignit l'ascenseur pratiquement au galop. Une curieuse sensation remonta de ses mollets à ses genoux. Non qu'il en eût fait l'expérience récemment mais en y réfléchissant, il se dit que cela devait s'appeler "courir".”
― Graham Moore (Author)

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. —THOMAS EDISON”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“No matter how many instances of white swans we have observed, that does not justify the inference that all swans are white.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes. —TIM BERNERS-LEE”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Arthur thought about this, and decided quite rationally that lying was by far the best approach to take.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. —JAMES WATSON, CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, by Jill Jonnes,”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“England is changing. The Morrigan is not a cause of that change; she is an effect. Have you been to Whitechapel, Dr. Doyle? Have you seen the depredations there? A hundred thousand ladies enslaved as whores. Have you been to Westminster? Another hundred thousand enslaved as chars. The women of England have but three choices in this age. We toil with our hands, we toil with our cunts, or we marry rich and toil with our very hearts. Which would you choose?”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Paul joined the throng along Broadway, he briefly noticed a young man in a Western Union uniform standing”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“A great and horrible attack was to come, and all Chamberlain could do was ready the shelters. Driving in, Ansel could already feel that the waiting must be the hardest part. What would it be like to live here realizing that the world as you’d known it was gone? That something was soon to fall, at a time you could not predict, and in a manner you could only dread? A nightmare loomed above the mansard roofs.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. —THOMAS EDISON”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Think of sexism. Fuck, think of sexual orientation. Think of the concept. Racism is about racial orientation. To say you made judgments about Bobby Nock because he’s black isn’t saying you’re some irredeemable redneck son of a bitch, dragging around a rope and a hood. We think of ‘racists’ as these other people—this subset of subhuman assholes. The villains in all those ridiculous movies with beatific white saviors. When the villains are so clear, we can tuck ourselves into bed at night knowing that we’re nothing like them. But what if it’s not so clear? What if it’s more complicated than here’s some heroic non-racist white people and here’s some villainous racist white people? What if, for me, the most pressing questions are not about how ‘racist’ you think you are or can prove that you aren’t. I don’t give a shit whether you think you’re a one or a ten on some kind of racism Kinsey scale. I care about what you’re going to do about it.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Need. Power was the need for something so great that absolutely nothing could stop the getting of it. With a need like that, victory was not a matter of will. It was a matter of time. And Thomas Edison needed to win more than any man he had ever met.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: There will always be some who misunderstand you. —KARL POPPER”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“- "L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre tout". C'est là que vous voulez en venir ?

- Oui. C'est de Flaubert, n'est-ce pas ?

- Oui.

- Et nous nous le rappelons encore.

Bram rit de nouveau amèrement.

- Mes histoires, dit Arthur. La science de la déduction. Le détective qui raisonne. La solution livrée fort à propos dans un dénouement satisfaisant. Tout ça, c'est des conneries.

Bram sourit.

- Je sais, dit-il. C'est pour cela que nous en avons besoin.”
― Graham Moore (Author)

“Remember that credit is money.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“Either she was who they wanted her to be, or she wasn’t, but either identity existed only in the shadow of their expectations.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Competition,' argued Paul, 'does no one any good. A friendly monopoly, on the other hand…' Morgan smiled.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“I think I love the idea that problems have solutions. I think that‘s the appeal of mystery stories, whether they‘re Holmes or someone else. In those stories we live in an understandable world. We live in a place where every problem has a solution, and if we were only smart enough, we could figure them out.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“You can play their game and you can beat them at it. Or you can let them banish you from New York in tatters. Just as Mr. Foster is trying to do to me. But do you know something? Nobody ever won a game they didn’t play.” She”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“If the day hadn’t yet convinced him of the merits of women’s suffrage, it had certainly convinced him of the justness of the movement for Rational Dress.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows