"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

“The papers that flourish will be papers that serve a national audience. Papers that have figured out how to make the transition to the electronic platform that aren't simply providing a duplicate experience of the words on paper experience, but are doing something that arises organically from the new electronic medium. It's really just a matter of finding the right platforms for the way people want to read newspapers. I mean, maybe it will be the iPhone. But one way or another, newspapers on paper are just not really going to exist to any significant degree within a decade.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.”

“Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.”

“I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.”

“It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.”

“One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.”

Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

“What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.”

Source : "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Knott, Cargill Gilston, p. 1-2, 1911.

“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”