"We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States."

“There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

“Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.”

“If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.”

“The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.”

Source : Source: medium.com

“The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

“Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.”