"During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence."

“I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.”

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

“Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.”

“Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.”

“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

“No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.”

“I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants”

Source : "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

“We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.”