Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (John D. Rockefeller)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. (Frank Lloyd Wright)