Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Josef Stalin, (attributed)

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can get your appetite elsewhere, as long as you eat at home.

Anonymous

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John le Carre

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

James Lovelock

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

Susan Wojcicki

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Proverb

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Epictetus

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.

Roald Dahl