Christopher Barclay

“What I learned was more than sufficient to impress upon me the horror, the real danger, and the utter insanity of thermonuclear warfare, which threatens everyone on earth. Our reports, and the conferences where we discussed a strategic thermonuclear strike on a potential enemy, transformed the unthinkable and monstrous into a subject for detailed investigation and calculation ... I could not stop thinking about this, and I came to realize that the technical, military, and economic problems are secondary; the fundamental issues are political and ethical. Gradually, subconsciously, I was approaching an irrevocable step—a wide-ranging public statement on war and peace and other global issues.”
― Andrei Sakharov

“Когда понимаешь, что строишь собор, переноска камней не проблема"
When you understand that you are building a cathedral, carrying the bricks is not a problem.”
― Thomas R. Beyer Jr., 501 Russian Verbs Barron's

“Shaping the principles of policy debate, I learned, is often the first step toward winning it.”
― William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time