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“As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .”
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“When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.”
Source : "CEO Howard Stringer sees Sony's future in 3-D". Interview with David Lieberman, www.usatoday.com. January 5, 2011.
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“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.”
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“I can remember walking on the moon.”
Source : "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. July 16, 1999.
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“Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.”
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“Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.”
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“So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.”
Source : "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
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“I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.”