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“If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“We all understand that genius doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s seductive to assume that success must come from genius.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

“In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to consider every possibility: assuming you spent one second considering each one, it would come to more than half a million years. The unhappy guest will assume, of course, that you are being histrionic.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

“But it isn’t true,” Orville responded emphatically, “to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers