"If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

-- Hillel the Elder

“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”
“When it hurts, you can't think of the entire picture. If you break it down to the moment, it becomes manageable.”
“Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.”
“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”
“As J.J. has said many times, when you start a series you want to have a destination. It's like driving a car, when you pull out of your garage and you head out driving down the road, you have a destination, okay?”
“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.
“I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.”
“Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.”

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