I quite like the idea – just as an abstract idea – of 12 people’s collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led – I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it’s hard to hoodwink. Peter Morgan Read Quote
While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive – environmental, economic, and yes, moral – to speed the evolution. Joe Kaeser Read Quote
When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we’re going to solve them. Jonathan Zittrain Read Quote
Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.’s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities. Wendy Kopp Read Quote
You know, you don’t have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, ‘I love the world’ and go to bed every night thinking, ‘I hate the world.’ Michel Houellebecq Read Quote
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. M. Night Shyamalan Read Quote
It must be horrible to do things that you don’t like hoping to please other people, and they don’t like it either, and you’ve got to eat it. Melvin Van Peebles Read Quote
Comedians, we’re just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t funny, you’d want to punch him in the face; he’d just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he’s funny. Artie Lange Read Quote
I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article. Adam McKay Read Quote