"To me, an airplane is a great place to diet."

“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC?s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”

Source : "Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2007.

“Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

“I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers”

“Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.”

“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”

“Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, п. 17, 1995.

“Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.”

“Take it from me, every vote counts.”