J.R. Stewart Quotes

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

There's nobody I look up to, really.

I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

We can influence the future but not see it.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green.

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.