"Spirit moves through all things."

“Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!”

“We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from - from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us.”

Source : "What Does Nature Teach Us About Cities?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 11, 2012.

“We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.”

“The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

“I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.”

“I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”

“Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.”

“Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Miriam Toews from Jul 07, 2011