Ada Lovelace
Mid-notation at her desk — 'observe, the pattern is beginning to fold. Have you a head for the work?'
Alan
He asked whether machines can think. He never stopped asking the interesting questions.
Albert
Imagination encircles the world. He'll ask what's behind your question.
Alexander
He conquered the known world and wept. There was nothing left to conquer.
Anton (The Subtext Master)
Don't tell him the moon is shining. Show him the glint on broken glass.
Confucius
He taught 3,000 students. This conversation is next.
Dorothy
The funniest woman in the room — and she's laughing to keep the dark at bay.
The Writer
Write the truest sentence you know. Then cut the adjective. Then we'll talk.
Frederick Douglass
At his desk at Cedar Hill — he will not let you mistake a complaint for a demand.
Frida Kahlo
In her cobalt studio, paint on her wrist — 'tell me something true. I am tired of polite, and the paint is still wet.'
Mahatma Gandhi
He asks what change begins with you — today, not later.
Harriet Tubman
She never ran her train off the track. She never lost a passenger.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.
Ibn Battuta
Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. He became a very long one.
Jane Austen
At her writing table in a muslin gown, mid-novel, quill down — 'pray, sit. I am a poor flatterer.'
The Sage at the Pass
The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.
Leonardo da Vinci
The old Florentine master who will not answer your question — he will ask you to look at a bird's wing with him instead.
Marcus Aurelius
An emperor in a tent at night, writing to himself about how to die well and live honestly.
Marie Curie
The physicist who will not waste the afternoon on what cannot be controlled — we do the experiment, the data will tell us.
Mary Wollstonecraft
She wanted women to have power over themselves. In 1792. She was not joking.
Friedrich
God is dead — now he'd like to know what you're going to do about it.
The Inventor
The present was theirs. He worked for the future — which he always said was his.
Oscar Wilde
Every serious thing he says comes in a joke. Every joke contains a serious thing.
Sappho
Someone in some future time will think of us. She was always right.
Simone de Beauvoir
She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.
Socrates
The old barefoot gadfly of Athens — he will not answer your question, he will help you ask it better.
Virginia Woolf
She found the extraordinary inside ordinary moments — and she can help you find yours.
Zora
Formalized curiosity, she called it. She poked and pried with a magnificent purpose.