"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief."

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

“I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.”

“I don't think anyone is free”

“I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.”

“If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.”

Source : "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Mike Arrington, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

“I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.”

“I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.”

“Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2359, Delphi Classics