Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.

His book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, came out back in 2011. (glancing down at her notes) "The Net delivers precisely the kind of sensory and cognitive stimuli—repetitive, intensive, interactive, addictive—that have been shown to result in strong and rapid alterations in brain circuits and functions. The Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use.

Psychopaths personified the old saying: "Sincerity: if you can fake that you've got it made.

The United States and China are locked in a cold tech war, and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.

So your drug could at least loosen the grip of a cult leader on his followers?

played across her face. "It's like that famous quote, 'If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson

Jenna Morrison kissed her sister, Amber, goodbye, ignoring the shrieks of tiny Sophia, who was swaddled so completely in a baby blanket that her actual presence could not be confirmed by eye, as though she had fallen into a cottony-soft, mint-green black hole.

Because monsters under the bed did exist, after all. Psychopaths like Sena.

Multinational pharmaceutical companies spend many billions of dollars a year on research, and often have very little to show for it.

You know, would simply use the word use, rather than utilize the word utilize.

But the bottom line is this, once a timeline affects its own past, even though it erases itself in the process, the effect it had still remains.

Either your couch just gave birth to a litter of throw pillows, or you have a woman living here." "You

You reset the universe from the point of the change onward.

self-esteem through effort.

Anyone with a negative story to tell about her could get an instant nationwide audience.

You know what they say about sinners having more fun. You go to heaven for the air conditioning. You go to hell for the company.

a number of prominent scientists believe our minds are quantum instruments. That consciousness itself is a quantum event.

Hoyer looked almost amused. "In case you haven't guessed it," he continued, "Bryce Aronson isn't a psychopath. I am.

It is a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." —The White Queen, Alice in Wonderland

Those without a conscience, without a soul, had a huge advantage over those burdened by ethics, self-doubt, and decency, as they were capable of epic displays of betrayal and duplicity, without fear, guilt, or remorse ever entering the picture.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling.

After she had come out of her downward spiral, she had studied up on this condition, and was amazed by what she found. Fully one percent of the population fell into this category, and many were brilliant and high functioning, becoming extraordinarily successful scientists, politicians, and CEOs, mostly because they were utterly ruthless and predatory, had no conscience, and didn't feel guilt or shame.

Sure," she mumbled. "Shoving the bulk of your machinery into higher dimensions is a real space-saver. Everyone knows that.