"During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before."

-- Will Cuppy

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“Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeareâ€™s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friendâ€”someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.”
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almightyâ€”and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”

Source : Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press
“Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.”
“When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.”

Source : "'Montpensier' star Gaspard Ulliel on Scorsese, Stunts and Scars" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 13, 2011.
“The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.”
“Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.”
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”

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