Complexity should be your excuse for inaction. - Catherine Webb

Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child–in simple language which is not deceit, of course–we are powerless. The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.

Politics," he spat. "Everyone is always looking for material to use against everybody else.

Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.