"She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence."

“I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.”

“A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.”

“And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself”

“Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.”

Source : "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

Source : Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”

“I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.”

“When we change the way we communicate, we change society.”

Source : Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.18, Penguin