"There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology."

“Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me”

Source : Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”

“A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can finally set aside their fears thanks to the new robot Drinky, machines are no longer going to enslave us. They're going to puke on our shoes.”

“Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.”

“I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.”

“I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.”

“Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.”