"Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say."

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin

“Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.88, Frog Books

“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”

“I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.”

“People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.”

“In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

“You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.”

“The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.”