Trevor Mulaa

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
― John von Neumann

“A good leader doesn’t have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that’s why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.

“That’s what makes a good leader.”
― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a sketch of settings. It will not get us subtleties, small differentiations, depth of emotion and observation, multilayered human experience, the appreciation of simile and metaphor, any sense of context, any comparison with other novels, other writers. Fast reading will not get us cadence and complexities of style and language. It will not get us anything that enters not just the conscious mind but the unconscious. It will not allow the book to burrow down into our memory and become part of ourselves, the accumulation of knowledge and wisdom and vicarious experience which helps to form us as complete human beings. It will not develop our awareness or add to the sum of our knowledge and intelligence. Read parts of a newspaper quickly or an encyclopaedia entry, or a fast-food thriller, but do not insult yourself or a book which has been created with its author's painstakingly acquired skill and effort, by seeing how fast you can dispose of it”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov