I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.
All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.
Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.
My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
