"People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull."

“People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1816). “The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.6

“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.”

“But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.”

“I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.”

“I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.”

“That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.”

Source : "BWW INTERVIEWS: Megan Mullally Talks Beverly, Lydia and Karen The Musical". Interview with Don Grigware, www.broadwayworld.com. October 19, 2009.

“One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.”

“I think everybody comes to the table with a different point of view and a different need...A lot of Beverly Lewis' material revolves around secrets and bringing those secrets to light. So, you know, there's always that theme, that...we're as sick as our secrets and once they're revealed we can be set free from them. So, that's definitely a theme that resonates.”