3 December 2020 Carlos Slim You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight – the fight for electoral justice.
3 December 2020 Paul Giamatti It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I’m going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government.
3 December 2020 David Talbot I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I’m thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
3 December 2020 Bryan Ferry But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
3 December 2020 Penn Jillette I’m a hardcore libertarian – I want everything legal – but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
3 December 2020 Mike Tyson I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
3 December 2020 Timothy Leary My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
3 December 2020 David Lynch Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There’s always a desire to please each one.
3 December 2020 Paul Tillich The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
3 December 2020 Hans Hofmann Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
3 December 2020 Scott Adams Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that’s O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
3 December 2020 Sophie Ellis-Bextor Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Cook Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn’t take any brains to complain.
3 December 2020 Joshua Lederberg I’m chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.