Herbert Bayer, "In the meantime while the tortoise
came jogging on with a slow but continued pace, and the hare out of too great a security and
confidence of victory overslept herself, the tortoise arrived at the end of the race first."
—Aesop, 550 B.C. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (ca 1962)
Mark's Pages
June 6, 2003:
He affects a veneer of affable self-depreciation. Beneath it lies a self-confidence so strong that you
want to label it "steely". If he acted without the goofy gloss he'd scare the bejeebers
out of three quarters of the people around him.