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" I don’t read fiction at all. " - Brent Spiner

" The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. " - J. Michael Straczynski

" Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better. " - Bill Nye

" Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole ‘Baroque Cycle’ and ‘Cryptonomicon.’ " - Daniel Suarez

" The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. " - Mohnish Pabrai

" I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift – never the Hardy Boys – but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan’s war books. As to favorite character: I’m torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo. " - Erik Larson

" I’m obsessed with 666 because the best way to fight your enemy is to know him, and of course my enemy is the devil, as it should be every sensible man’s enemy. " - Demis Roussos

" As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. " - Arthur Schopenhauer

" A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. " - George Wald

" The management teams in these royalty and streaming companies have the highest-quality research and the most visibility into all of the producers. So if you really want to know what’s going on in the resource space, you should talk to the management team of a royalty company. " - Porter Stansberry