"The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not."

“There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.”

“A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.”

Source : "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

“If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.”

“A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.”

“Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.”

“I have always believed that everyone has the potential to do something extraordinary if they're guided and helped along the way.”

“If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

“I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.”