"Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off."

“The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation that’s going to be rewarded will be on things like, let’s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Let’s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.”

“If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...”

“Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets His signet on my brow, And dims my sunken eye, forgets, The heart he could not bow;-- Where love, that cannot perish, grows For one, Alas! that little knows How love may sometimes last; Like sunshine wasting in the skies When clouds are overcast.”

“A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.”

“The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

“All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”

Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.

“The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.”