Motaz Alfarraj

“Anyway, suffice it to say, the wall of the rover wasn’t made for sleeping on. But after a morning potato and Vicodin, I was feeling much better.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“in the last two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War. By contrast, in all of Japan (with a population of 120 million people), the number of young men shot to death in a year is equal to the number killed in New York City in a single busy weekend.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“IQ is a statistical method for quantifying specific kinds of problem-solving ability, mathematically convenient but not necessarily corresponding to a real attribute of the human brain, and not necessarily representing whatever it is that we mean by ‘intelligence’.”
― Ian Stewart, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

“There isn’t any loving, romantic way to put this: I told Bonnie we needed to get married so she couldn’t testify against me, and also so she could visit me if I landed in jail, which was looking like the way things were headed.”
― Kevin D. Mitnick, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker