Fall Quote by Orson Scott Card

“Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.”

— Orson Scott Card

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

— Allan Sherman

Genius is initiative on fire.

— Holbrook Jackson

“Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.”

— Anonymous

The unrecognized genius of our time.

— William March

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

— Virginia Woolf

“We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.”

— Jacques Casanova De Seingalt

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

— Samuel Johnson

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

— Zadie Smith

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.” “You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,” Jack said. “What’s glowering?”…

— Julie James

Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software!…

— Paul Virilio