To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
“I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.”
“True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.”