Bill Bishop

“When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But other strategies with dead horses [include] the following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like 'this is the way we've always ridden this horse'; ... and, finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson”
― Mark Rippetoe, Strong Enough? Thoughts from Thirty Years of Barbell Training

“but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength

“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength