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“The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.”
Source : Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group
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“I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.”
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“Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.”
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“In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.”
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“A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.”
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“Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.”
Source : Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”
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“In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
