Mac Rost

“If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“He then farmed the problem out to Joe Laitin, a former wire service reporter who had later become a public affairs officer for President Kennedy and currently worked for President Johnson.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

“I’d come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn’t exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Those who live the most fully realized lives—giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves—tend to find meaning in their obstacles.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking