"Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully."

“Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.”

Source : "President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors". Susan Hockfield's keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Salt Lake City, news.mit.edu. July 15, 2011.

“Let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?”

Source : "MSNBC Anchor To GOP Rep: 'Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?'". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 15, 2013.

“Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.”

“Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery”

“There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.”

“While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.”

“There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

“SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!”