You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)