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The year 1925 would prove to be a critical turning point in Wernher von Braun's life, and not only because the telescope launched a newfound fascination with the Moon, the planets, and the stars...Around the end of the year his discovery of a pioneering treatise would direct his astronomical interests toward building things that might actually allow people to travel into space. By 1932 [age 20] von Braun had matured into an immensely charming, talented, and driven individual with one seemingly utopian ambition: to pioneer human spaceflight, even to land on the Moon himself. pg 21

All evidence suggests, however, that he was not even aware that he had made such a bargain until rather late in the war. His conservative nationalist upbringing and inclination toward apolitical opportunism made it easy to work for the Nazi regime, which asked for little at first beyond keeping quiet. Gradually through seduction and pressure, he was drawn deeper into the system. In the end he had to accept the brutal exploitation of concentration camp laborers, and he had to play his part in administering that exploitation, implicating him in crimes against humanity. However much, like Goethe's Faust, he divorced himself from personal responsibility, after he toured the Mittelwerk tunnels in late 1943 he could have had no illusions about what that meant for prisoners. His Gestapo arrest a few months later was the final straw; he finally and belatedly understood that he was "aiding an evil regime." pg 476

...since in the Eucharist the appearance of the bread and not those of the body of Christ are sensible, it must mean that in the Eucharist there are atoms of bread, the substance of bread—and not the substance of the body of Christ; and this idea [of transubstantiation] is false. pg 314

Were this thinking not in the framework of scientific work, it would be considered paranoid. In scientific work, creative thinking demands seeing things not previously seen, or in ways not previously imagined...the difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter's ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the systems of checks and balances science has established. pg. 151

Jobs had always been able to draw energy by imaging himself as a rebel pitted against the forces of darkness. Now he was able to energize his troops with the same vision. pg 161

Jobs's interest in Eastern spirituality, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and the search for enlightenment was not merely the passing phase of a nineteen-year-old. Throughout his life he would seek to follow many of the basic precepts of Eastern religions, such as the emphasis on experiment ±è°ù²¹ÂáñÄå, wisdom or cognitive understanding that is intuitively experienced through concentration of the mind. pg 48

The most Zen of all simplicities was Jobs's decree, which astonished his colleagues, that the iPod would not have an on-off switch. It became true of most Apple devices. There was no need for one. Apple's devices would go dormant if they were not being used, and they would wake up when you touched any key. But there was no need for a switch that would go "Click—you're off. Good-bye." pg 389