"Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off."

“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.”

“One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.”

“I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!”

“Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.”

“Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.”

“I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.”

“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”

“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.”

Source : "A Modern Introduction to Logic". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 198, 1930.