Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.

Proverb

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Minoru Yamasaki

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

John F. Kennedy

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

John Green

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

Neil Gaiman

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

George H. W. Bush

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Ingmar Bergman

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Eric Raymond

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Danny Boyle