My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Now I'm a warriorNow i've got thicker skinI'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever beenAnd my amorIs made of steel you can't get in i'm a warriorAnd you can never hurt me again

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate