"I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email."

-- Endre Szemeredi

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“I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.”
“The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.”
“I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.”
“I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.”
“It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.”
“I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”
“I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.”

Source : "Mara Wilson On Why Child Stars Go Crazy: Former Child Actor Offers An Insider’s Perspective". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
“At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.”

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