Brian Burris

“Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

“It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.”
― Thomas de Quincey

“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again