"People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive."

“The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.”

“NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.”

“I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!”

“My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.”

Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

“[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.”

Source : Usenet article "Perl and XEmacs", groups.google.com. August 16, 1997.

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”

Source : Brenda Danilowitz, Josef Albers, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2001). “The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976”, Hudson Hills

“There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.”

“When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect”