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“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. —STEVE JOBS I”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Don’t make a sour face,” suggested Westinghouse. “With a little luck we just might make something out of you yet.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“The United States was of an anti-intellectual bent.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Nobody ever won a game they didn’t play.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“that what these men did was not for money, it was not for class or some abstract social achievement. These men built things because they were smart. They were eager and they were precocious and they were curious. Paul wanted always to live in an America in which Thomas Edison would fear a smart kid in a basement whose father had harvested enough cotton that his son might harvest volts.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Lawyers were day laborers to the truly rich. That attorneys labored with pens rather than shovels did not dignify their position in the eyes of Rockefellers and Morgans and Roosevelts. It only made their attempts at society life all the more quaint.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. —KARL POPPER”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“It is the people no one imagines anything from who do the things no one can imagine”
― Graham Moore

“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

“No worn, ink-drenched leather journal for the period from October 11 through December 23, 1900, could be found.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. —KARL POPPER”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.” —Ludwig von Mises”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s…negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Maya wanted to tell Lou that this need for vindication had become the mire of their whole petty country. Every day, they woke up fervently hoping for the headline that would prove, definitively, that their guys were the virtuous ones and the other guys were the absolute worst. But news of that certainty would forever elude them. Every new revelation that seemed to damn the people with whom they disagreed would be followed by a new rationalization. For every failed prediction, there would come a mitigating circumstance. They would double down on their most weakly held convictions because the alternative felt unbearable, and the bums across the aisle would follow suit. She wanted to say that the only thing worse than being wrong was having a bottomless need to prove that you never were.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“As always, they were most together when disobeying the rules.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“I’m off the morphine now,” he said. “Thankfully, I’m on nothing stronger than a little cocaine in the mornings. It helps with the headaches.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Anyone can make a coin. What turns that coin into money is when the government says that it’s the only thing you can use to pay your taxes. Put it another way: The words that matter most on a dollar bill are not one or dollar, but rather This note is legal tender for all debts public and private. Money is whatever the government says it accepts as payment for taxes.”
― Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“Of all the conventions of mystery stories, the one that’s impossible to break is the solution at the end.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

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

“...the only thing worse than being wrong was having a bottomless need to prove that you never were.”
― Graham Moore

“These men built things because they were smart. They were eager and they were precocious and they were curious. Paul wanted always to live in an America in which Thomas Edison would fear a smart kid in a basement whose father had harvested enough cotton that his son might harvest volts.”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night