The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.

NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.

NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

The company was liable for three hundred and fifty million dollars in fines, and four Koch employees faced up to thirty-five years in prison.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

The youth of the founders (Brin is thirty-four and Page is thirty-five) leads to jokes that an adult like Schmidt, who is fifty-two, was essential to manage Google.

NEWYORKER: The Search Party