"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land."

“When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.”

Source : "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata" by Barton Gellman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2013.

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1200, Macmillan

“When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.”

“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

Source : "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”

“The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.”

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”