Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn't interest her. But for her, the event does… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers… — Alexander Khalifman Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force… — Frank Griswold Copy Share Image
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs… — Chip Kelly Copy Share Image
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental… — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers.… — John McCain Copy Share Image
