Zero to One on Anna Karenina: “Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.””
Zero to One on Romeo and Juliet: “Consider the opening line from Romeo and Juliet: “Two households, both alike in dignity.””
Zero to One on Hamlet: “Hence Hamlet: Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell.”
Zero to One on Outliers: “Malcolm Gladwell, a successful author who writes about successful people, declares in Outliers that success results from a “patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages.””
Zero to One on The Lord of the Rings: “As Tolkien wrote in The Lord of the Rings: The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began.”
Zero to One on Cryptonomicon: “We all loved science fiction: Cryptonomicon was required reading, and we preferred the capitalist Star Wars to the communist Star Trek.”