Montgomery Webster

“There is an old saying to the effect that when an elderly person dies a library disappears.”
― Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders

“Four basic factors are present in every story, with varying degrees of emphasis: milieu, idea, character, and event.”
― Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint

“In stage four, once again they’re crowded around me—but this time it’s to tell me what stocks I should buy. Even the dentist has three or four tips, and in the next few days I look up his recommendations in the newspaper and they’ve all gone up. When the neighbors tell me what to buy and then I wish I had taken their advice, it’s a sure sign that the market has reached a top and is due for a tumble.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

“Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.”
― Garry Kasparov