"I want to be in New Zealand SO BADLY. I've dreamt about coming to New Zealand ever since I was a kid."

“It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.”

“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”

“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”

“I said all along, you judge your quarterback in his third year.”

“IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

“Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.”

“I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.”

“The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press