"Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works."

“It's always too early to quit.”

“Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.”

“Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.”

Source : "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.

“People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what number is larger, 2/3 or 3/5, he won’t be able to tell you. But if you rephrase the question: what is better, 2 bottles of vodka for 3 people or 3 bottles of vodka for 5 people, he will tell you right away: 2 bottles for 3 people, of course.”

“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.”

“I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.”

“Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.”

“Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.”