“Sorry I disagree,' she said while initialing some papers, having already acquired the mogul's knack of compounding an insult by multitasking while delivering it.”
“Violet, Kevin, the crowd, and my annoying father would all just have to wait while I ate half that torte and drank half that coffee. Violet, however, was a multitasker.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office."quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan”
“But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already… it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?”
“Originality is putting its pants on while orthodoxy is ready to deliver.”