quotes

"...how can it be that a black man running for president is accused of being too elitist?"
Evan Thomas (Newsweek Author)

"Ultimately, our strongest cometitive advantage is the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the Amercian people."
Michael S. Malone (WSJ Editorial Writer)

"I get angry when I see 233 million of your tax dollars going to a bridge to an island with 50 people on it. I get angry when I see corruption to the point where we have former member of Congres residing in federal prison."
John McCain (Senator)

"Being a true American patriot means being willing to risk one's neck to challenge the prevailing powers of government to do the right thing. It should not be confused, as it so often is, with jingoism, which is a blind, flag-waving nationalism that refuses to acknowledge any failings whatsoever of our society."
James McBride (WSJ Editorial Writer)

"If we want to fight global warming, we are going to have to innovate ourselves out of this dilemma."
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger (authors, futurists)

"Twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can't name a single First Amendment right."
Susan Jacoby (Author)

"Only the paranoid survive"
Andrew Grove (Intel CEO)

"In this great experiment that is American democracy, "secular" is the only word we have to describe the idea, handed down by the Founders, that our leaders do not belong to God, they belong to us."
Lisa Miller (author, Newsweek)

"If you make decisions based on society's opinion, you are going to make boring choices."
Jake Gyllenhaal (actor)

"Music is the soul of the future"
Fela (musician)

"I think music is supposed to make you high, to give you an experience so that you can transport yourself from wherever you are and that whole physical contact with the world so that you can gain a little more consciousness - inner consciousness."
Herbie Hancock (musician)

"An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities. I believe that the ultimate winners of the 21st century will be determined by these skills."
KunHee Lee (Samsung chairman)

"Apple understands the importance of beauty, managing to set the right balance between desire and spirituality, complexity and simplicity, form and function, software and hardware (which is, of course, a new version of the old body-mind dialectic)."
Momus (author, wired magazine)