Pascal

“What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“For more than forty years, efforts to tame the SIOP, to limit it, reduce it, make it appear logical and reasonable, had failed. “With the possible exception of the Soviet nuclear war plan, this was the single most absurd and irresponsible document I had ever reviewed in my life,” General Butler later recalled. “I came to fully appreciate the truth … we escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”
― Eric Schlosser, Command and Control

“Someone had reported the judge naked atop the walls, immense and pale in the revelations of lightning, striding the perimeter up there and declaiming in the old epic mode.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“Your customers’ customers are your customers.”
― Ash Maurya, Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean