Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Tim Bishop

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

I was an ugly kid. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get.

Rodney Dangerfield

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Dennis Miller

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Thomas Carlyle

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Henry David Thoreau

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

Alfred Adler

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis