rapid comprehension Quotes

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.