"Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles … they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly."

“We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.”

“You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.157, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987”

“Tax what you burn not what you earn.”

“It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.”

“If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.”

“Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.”

Source : "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.