“I don't play villains, I play very interesting people”
“I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.”
“Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.”
“There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.”
“Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.”
Source : Keith Ward (2013). “God: A Guide for the Perplexed”, p.183, Oneworld Publications
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.”
“One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.”
“Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick”
Source : Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.517, Microsoft Press
Aldus Manutius
Edmund Spenser Poet
Geoffrey Chaucer Poet
Johannes Gutenberg Printer
John Gower Poet
John Lydgate Poet
Joseph Jacobs Critic
Thomas Malory Writer
William Langland Author
