"If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative."

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Steven Johnson

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“There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.”

Source : "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.
“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.”

Source : Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press
“I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.”
“My work is one long triumph over my limitations.”
“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”
“A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a house and a loving husband. "I did everything right in my life," said the woman. "But I'm still not happy." She never did what she herself wanted, but what she believed society expected from her.”
“To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.”

Source : "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.
“Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.”

Source : "A Book of Jewish Thoughts" by Joseph H. Hertz, Oxford University Press, (p. 3), 1920.

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