"To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters."

“An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.”

“Theres nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. Its bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.”

“The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.”

Source : "The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors". Book by James T. Bennett, p. 70, September 11, 2010.

“...there's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse...”

“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.”

Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

“This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.”

“Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.”

Source : Dani Rodrik (2012). “The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist”, p.13, OUP Oxford