"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."

“What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.”

Source : "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.

“They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.”

Source : James Oppenheim (1914). “Songs for the New Age”

“I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.”

Source : Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.7, Scholastic

“Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.”

Source : “Talk Asia”, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

“I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.”

“It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.”

“Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”

“When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.”