One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Michael Phelps

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster

A man stays in touch with society by means of a wife.

Michael Lipsey

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Joan Rivers

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

Nathan Fillion

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Lev Grossman

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

Susie Orbach

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Harry Connick, Jr.