"An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They're experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual."

“Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.”

“You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.”

“There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.”

“You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.”

Source : "Alone with the Man in Black". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2003.

“One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.”

“Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.”

“The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.”