The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
