"Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people."

“Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.”

Source : "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”

“I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.”

Source : "Keira Knightley & First-Time Director Lorene Scafaria on 'Seeking A Friend'" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

“I like creativity in data collection. Here are a few creative Google Analytics tracking ideas I have seen:”

“the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.”

“I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.”

“It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.”

“Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.”