"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else."

“I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. It opened up a whole world of this music that I'm now obsessed with.”

Source : "Inside Llewyn's Oscar Isaac on the Coen Brothers, Bob Dylan & Success". Interview with Tim Lammers, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2013.

“There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.”

Source : "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet". Book by Jeffrey Sachs, 2011.

“And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.”

“I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.”

“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.”

“For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.”

“Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.”

“Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.”