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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
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"For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?"

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received."

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