"Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them."

“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”

“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”

“Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert – and prevailed. Nichols’ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.”

“The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.”

“There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.”

“I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.”

“I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.”