Terry Eich

“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Nuclear weapons may well have made deliberate war less likely,” Sagan now thought, “but the complex and tightly coupled nuclear arsenal we have constructed has simultaneously made accidental war more likely.” Researching The Limits of Safety left him feeling pessimistic about our ability to control high-risk technologies. The fact that a catastrophic accident with a nuclear weapon has never occurred, Sagan wrote, can be explained less by “good design than good fortune.”
― Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind