I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

Bill Hybels

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Kahlil Gibran

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

John Carmack

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Sylvia Plath

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

George Bernard Shaw

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

John Key

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith