Rob Gentz

“As it turned out, warning Christians that burying their heads in the sand would only marginalize them further was completely intolerable to those Christians with their heads buried the deepest.”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“legendary accretion”
― David Fitzgerald, Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I

“On December 3 the New York Times announced the death of Pablo Escobar on the front page. “Pablo Escobar, who rose from the slums of Colombia to become one of the world’s most murderous and successful cocaine traffickers, was killed in a hail of gunfire… . “The death is not expected to seriously affect cocaine traffic.”
― Roberto Escobar, Escobar: The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal

“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made was whom to allow onto his basketball team. “Your mind needs to be in a constant state of defense against all this crap that is trying to mislead you,” he said. “We’re always trying to figure out what’s a trick and what’s real. Are we seeing a hologram? Is this an illusion?”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World