Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don’t have a string, you can’t put the pearls around your neck. Marsha Norman Read Quote
I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn’t interested. Bill Gates Read Quote
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It’s like paying our rent for living on the planet. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I don’t know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created ‘progress,’ computers are problematic, giving and taking away. Ellen Ullman Read Quote
I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you’d never get on your own. It’s like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn’t have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you’d get a more interesting product. John Cleese Read Quote
Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don’t get breast cancer. Craig Venter Read Quote
I’m given an enormous amount of freedom, within the constraints of the editorial policies of the network. One of the Quest shows started off with me doing the cancan kicking… you know, the high kick, with dancing girls. We never thought CNN would agree to that. Richard Quest Read Quote
It’s commonly said that people who’ve been ill in childhood and who’ve had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don’t look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that’s a help. John Keegan Read Quote
