To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

I have loved you all my life, Mal, " I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....

Eagles can fly higher than other birds, but a small sparrow can evade much better and has a better chance to survive, if falls off the height. (Sentence from my ebook, Tora-Bora mountains)

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.