Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

William Shakespeare

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

John Hall

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

Aldous Huxley

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

Proverb

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Judy Holliday

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Mary J. Blige

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde