“I overheard this elderly rich woman tell this other elderly rich woman...” — Julio Torres Quote

“I overheard this elderly rich woman tell this other elderly rich woman, 'Oh, remind me to send you that article on how good standing is for you.' That was the moment where I realized that New Yorker cartoons were based on a reality.”

“We're allowed to pick and choose what we learn from people. We don't have to absorb them in their totality.”

“I think that when we are outside of the system, and when we're drowning, all we're thinking about is swimming and succeeding in it. And it takes - at least for me - a taste of that to be like, 'Wait, this whole thing's actually wrong.'”

“I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.”

“I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.”