Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

The effort to try and feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. -Oliver Burkeman

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami