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“Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
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“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”
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“Today, the gay and lesbian people are accepted. Their families are welcome in the units where they serve. This is not so for transgender people in any way. But, nevertheless, it could be.”
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“I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.”
Source : Foresight Institute interview, www.foresight.org. 
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“I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.”
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“Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.”
Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.315, Pan Macmillan
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“When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.”
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“Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.”
Source : "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).
