evidence: - Quote is actually from Tom Peters: The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course. Chicago Tribune July 11, 1994 - I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep. - This derives from a comment about him written by Sigmund Freud, in Leonardo Da Vinci (1916): He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep. [...] - He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.