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“They said that here it’s not where you come from that counts, it’s what you make of the life you’re given”

They do It with mirrors, Agatha Christie
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“A multitude is a better judge of many things than any individual”

– Politics by Aristotle Sommes-nous plus intelligents à plusieurs ?: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-rencontres-de-petrarque/sommes-nous-plus-intelligents-a-plusieurs-1352240
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“I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”.

Stephen Hawking – A brief history of time by Errol Morris (film 1991)
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”

Steve Jobs The quote is from the book Steve Jobs in his own words by George Beahm