It is true that ninety-nine percent of the effort is dumb power and not intelligence.  But it is also true that the inertia behind the largest ship is ninety-nine percent steel and power, but that remaining one percent is the rudder.  Never underestimate how much so little can do.

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A fact without adequate interpretation is a form of trespassing.
 
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History is the survival of those details most fit to a culture’s equilibrium.

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Hindsight is only twenty-twenty because as time passes there are fewer and fewer challenges to prejudice.

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For meaningful truth, the simpler it is, the more courage it takes, but that is all it takes. Otherwise you would already have it.  The more complicated the truth, the more likely you are merely too timid for relevant truth.

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