"We only came up with the Kaiser Chiefs about a year and a half ago when we scrapped every song we'd ever done. It was a complete change of direction, songs, outlook and everything."

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”

“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.”

“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”

“Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose to call such a system a mess.”

Source : "Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, p. 21, 1974.

“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.”

“The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

“Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.”

“In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.”