"Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time."

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source : Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

“You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.”

“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”

“Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.”

“When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.”

“Dead people are all on the same level.”

“My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.”

“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”