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Michael Keaton Quotes: The First Batman

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:18:02 +0000

‘At some point, you’ve got to win.’

‘There comes a point in your life when you realise how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.’

‘I’m going to do four or five of these movies, and it’s going to become my career. I’ll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I’ll be bankrupt. I’ll be out opening shopping malls, going from appearance to appearance in a cheesy van.’ On making the Batman films.

‘Well, I think I’m not a non-believer, and I’m not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn’t give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn’t exist. I don’t know enough about it, so how could I say it’s not true. Plus, a person’s reality is a person’s reality; so that’s your belief system. It’s all perception anyway, isn’t it?’

‘Unless you’re flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what’s on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?’

‘It was a lonely time for me, which was great for the character, I suppose. I would run at night in London just trying to get tired enough so I could sleep. I didn’t talk to people much. My little boy was a toddler, and the woman I was married to at the time, we were not together but we were trying to figure it out and get back together. It was me in London, alone, and my sleep during that whole movie was never right. As often as I could, I was getting on the Concorde and trying to get back to spend some time with my kid…It was an extremely difficult undertaking and Tim [Burton] is a shy guy, especially back then, and there was so much pressure. We were in England for a long time shooting at Pinewood and it was long, difficult nights in that dank, dark, cold place, and we never knew if it was really working. There was no guarantee that any of this was going to play correctly when it was all said and done. There had never been a movie like it before. There was a lot of risk, too, with Jack [Nicholson] looking the way he did and me stepping out in this new way. The pressure was on everybody. You could feel it.’

‘I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at the same time saying to yourself, ‘Don’t back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.’ If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can’t take yourself out of that moment.’

‘My prediction, I don’t know anything about it, but I feel this way about it. It’s going to be good, because he’s a really good actor, and that’s a really good director. And they’ve had years and years and years, and hundreds of millions of dollars, or at least tens of millions of dollars to figure it out. I say it’s going to be good. I picture it’s going to be good. And also, I swear to God it’s not an “I told you so”, it’s maybe an interesting thing, that when I didn’t like the third script… I just said “I really don’t like this, and I don’t want to do it” cause what I wanted to do, is what I’m told and I don’t know if this is true yet so don’t hold me to this until I see it, but I’m told it’s more a prequel. And that was what I thought would’ve been a hip way to go the third time. This guy is so endlessly fascinating potentially, why not go and see how he got there.’ His thoughts on the release of Batman Begins.

‘From an art perspective, I don’t know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, it’s 100% unique. If you consider the process of taking something from someone’s mind – meaning Tim [Burton] – and putting it on the screen, I think that movie is incomparable.’

‘I never saw what I did for a living as who I am. But if there’s a job in the world where that can get blurry, this is the one. The line gets really blurry for a lot of people, and for understandable reasons just as you go through life and this business. You don’t have to be especially weak to become extremely self-involved in this business, and I just never wanted to go down that road…. Alan Arkin said to me once that he wanted to have a really big life and a really good career. And I think that’s really sane.’

Ricky Gervais Quotes: The Comic’s Take

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:14:48 +0000

‘I’m a lot taller than I look on television and younger, and for the role of David Brent, I wore a fat suit under my shirt and trousers. Really I’m about 25 and about 6′ 1″ tall. So that’s probably why you don’t recognise me in the street.’

‘I remember when we were talking to one of the executives at the BBC. And he said, “Now hold on, this man [David Brent] is so incompetent, why wouldn’t he be fired?’ and I said, “Go and take a look around this building. Just go and knock on a few doors.”‘

‘I’m not one of those people who think that comedy is your conscience taking a day off. My conscience never takes a day off and I can justify everything I do. There’s no line to be drawn in comedy in the sense that there are things you should never joke about. There’s nothing that you should never joke about, but it depends what that joke is. Comedy comes from a good or a bad place. The subject of a joke isn’t necessarily the target of the joke. You can make jokes about race without any race being the butt of the joke. Racism itself can be the butt, for example. When dealing with a so-called taboo subject, the angst and discomfort of the audience is what’s under the microscope. Our own preconceptions and prejudices are often what are being challenged. I don’t like racist jokes. Not because they are offensive. I don’t like them because they’re not funny. And they’re not funny because they’re not true. They are almost always based on a falsehood somewhere along the way, which ruins the gag for me. Comedy is an intellectual pursuit. Not a platform.’

‘Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.’

‘I worked in an office for about seven years, and I’ve always been a people watcher. So when it came to writing it down, I just had a big bag of observations really about office life. And it’s not really about office life as such — it’s not about selling paper or politics of the office — it’s more about relationships. I think that’s why it’s sort of taken off around the world, ’cause the themes are big; you know, boy meets girl, a decent job of work, making a difference. It’s also a comedy about comedy, really. It’s about this guy who thinks he is funny and isn’t. He’s not a bad man, David Brent; I suppose he’s got a bit of a blind spot, and he’s a bit of a twit, but I suppose the worst thing he did was confuse popularity with respect. But yeah, it’s a show about people working in an office, trapped and wasting their life really. And it’s not a snobby look at white-collar 9-to-5 — one of the themes is sort of, if you don’t enjoy it, don’t sit there watching the clock ’til you’re 65 and go, “oh, f**k, I always meant to write a novel.” It’s quite sweet and sad at parts, quite existential, I think, but very funny, I think. But you’ll be the judge of that’

‘There’s a received wisdom in the U.K. that Americans don’t get irony. This is of course not true. But what is true is that they don’t use it all the time. It shows up in the smarter comedies but Americans don’t use it as much socially as Brits. We use it as liberally as prepositions in every day speech. We tease our friends. We use sarcasm as a shield and a weapon. We avoid sincerity until it’s absolutely necessary. We mercilessly take the piss out of people we like or dislike basically. And ourselves. This is very important. Our brashness and swagger is laden with equal portions of self-deprecation. This is our license to hand it out. This can sometimes be perceived as nasty if the recipients aren’t used to it. It isn’t. It’s play fighting. It’s almost a sign of affection if we like you, and ego bursting if we don’t. You just have to know which one it is.’

‘Oh, these actors who ask, “What’s my motivation?” all the time. Who cares? I’ll tell you what your motivation is: it’s the only thing you can do, and you’re getting paid to do it, so shut the hell up!’

‘I guess the biggest difference between the U.S. version and the U.K. version of “The US Office” (2005) reflected this. We had to make Michael Scott a slightly nicer guy, with a rosier outlook to life. He could still be childish, and insecure, and even a bore, but he couldn’t be too mean. The irony is of course that I think David Brent’s dark descension and eventual redemption made him all the more compelling. But I think that’s a lot more palatable in Britain for the reasons already stated. Brits almost expect doom and gloom so to start off that way but then have a happy ending is an unexpected joy. Network America has to give people a reason to like you not just a reason to watch you. In Britain we stop watching things like “Big Brother” (2000/II) when the villain is evicted. We don’t want to watch a bunch of idiots having a good time. We want them to be as miserable as us. America rewards up front, on-your-sleeve niceness. A perceived wicked streak is somewhat frowned upon.’

‘It’s going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast.’

‘There’s nothing wrong with getting 20 million viewers, but I think there’s something wrong with aiming at getting 20 million viewers, because then you have to take away all the things that will offend, and you’ll end up with something so anodyne that it just washes over you for half an hour. I imagine “The Office” [2001] was also one of the most hated shows on television, that some people passionately hated it. But that’s better, for me. David Bowie said that after Let’s Dance, which is his biggest album ever and obviously not his best, he was doing these stadium gigs and looked out at the audience and suddenly realised that he had Phil Collins fans instead of Iggy Pop fans. And that’s how I feel about everything I do: I want Iggy Pop fans.’

George W. Bush Quotes: Bushisms

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:00:46 +0000

‘Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.’

‘Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.’

‘If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.’

‘There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…that says, fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.’

‘For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.’

‘I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.’

‘Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.’

‘I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.’

‘See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.’

‘I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.’

Tony Hawk Quotes: The Skateboarder’s Way Of Life

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:00:30 +0000

‘I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.’

‘These sports are just – you go do it, and you’re doing it on your own. You don’t have to answer to anyone.’

‘I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable.’

‘Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.’

‘That’s awesome. Aside from being a really positive outlet for kids who are going to skate whether there’s a park or not, it’s a breeding ground. It helps our sport grow.’

‘I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.’

‘Some of the spins he has learned on his skateboard had never been done before, because we, as skaters, didn’t have a frame of reference to try them for the first time. For instance, nobody had attempted a 1080 in skating until Shaun tried it last year. He wasn’t scared because he’s done it plenty of times in the snow.’ On Shaun White.

‘I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.’

‘Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.’

Bill Gates Quotes: The Microsoft Founder’s Thoughts

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:24:00 +0000

‘I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away.’‘Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.’

‘Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.’

‘Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.’

‘Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.’

‘I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.’

‘I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in. ‘

‘If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.’

‘Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ‘

‘We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.’

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Paul Gross Quotes: The Due South Star Talks

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:18:25 +0000

‘It’s really fun playing the devil. There’s no real boundaries. There’s no limitations to what I can or can’t do. And I’ve been encouraging them to let me do things on the periphery, like set people on fire for no particular good reason.’

‘Trust me, there’s no more back-handed compliment than saying you like something because it’s Canadian. Girls say it to me all the time.’

‘The most rewarding thing is directing actors. That is really a treat. Part of the reason is if you have really good actors, as I did, it’s just a joy to watch them go at a scene. To be reminded of what a wonderful thing it is that actors can do…to inhabit these people. You’ve really only written these black and white symbols we call words and they suddenly are full bodied and they have hearts and it’s fantastic.’

‘I was interested in the intimate casualties of war, and what it does to families and innocence and neighbours, and love, I suppose. The casualties of love. And the only thing that can counterbalance something as implacably brutal as a cataclysm like the first war is all these individual acts of love and self-sacrifice.’

‘I certainly don’t want to be like Bryan Adams and have to play in gigantic stadiums. I think that would be daunting. I think playing in nice clubs is fun.’

‘It’s intriguing to me why the First World War started. It’s intriguing that the war continued even after both sides recognized it was hopeless. And it’s also intriguing that it ended so ambivalently, leaving the door open for the second one.’

‘The first time that you direct something you think you need to concentrate on everything and while to a certain extent that’s true, there’s a hierarchy of what’s important and what isn’t. I had it all flattened out into all of it being of critical importance. So I think I’d be better at it if I did it again’

‘Somewhere after long division, I stopped doing math. That cut off the sciences. I decided I probably should try acting.’

‘It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now – beyond our means and capacity to photograph.’

‘I met the Queen. It was the nicest thing. I can’t believe it.’

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Karl Pilkington Quotes: A Different Take

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:01:29 +0000

‘You always get a little snidey one.’ On identical twins.

‘Why didn’t evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?’

‘Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don’t know if I’m in charge of mine.’

‘The first time you watch it you’ll probably cry a bit. The second time you watch it you will probably think “boy, that would be bad having a head like that being picked on”. The third time you are probably thinking “how does he get his jumper on?” Then don’t know, probably bored of it the fourth time. But, but it’s well worth watching.’ On watching The Elephant Man.

‘We’re just a weed in the Universe.’ On the planet Earth.

‘You can be an ugly baby and everyone goes “awww, aint it nice?” There was some women in a cafe the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talking loudly going on about “oh the baby’s lovely.” They said “It’s got lovely big eyes, really big hands and feet”. Now that doesn’t sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like saying it sounds like a frog. But I thought I dont know her, there’s only so much you can say to a stranger. I dont know what kept me from saying it.’

‘If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?’

‘They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It’s nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it’s because there’s too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.’

‘People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends ain’t it. If the drug’s aspirin and the monkey’s got a headache, is it right?’

‘Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain’t been back. It can’t have been that good.’

Tom Cruise Quotes: The Stalwart Of Hollywood

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:29:57 +0000

‘When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.’

‘As a kid when I was growing up, I remember vividly being on the roof of my family’s station wagon, and across the street was the Sahara Desert. I always wanted to see other places and learn about how other people lived. I began to travel and saw different cultures even within America.’

‘I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.’

‘Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don’t know what I’m doing.’

‘Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, “What is this? You know, why don’t you ask me?”‘

‘When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.’

‘I’ve been…chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don’t know what it’s like being chased by them. It is harassment under the guise of, you know, ‘We are the press, we are entitled.’ When people are having a private moment, they should be allowed to have a private moment.’

‘The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.’

‘I’ve learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.’

‘When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.’

Tom Hanks Quotes: Hollywood’s Leading Man

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:08:24 +0000

‘If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.’

‘And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.’

‘Email is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I’m concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.’

‘I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?’

‘I love what I do for a living, it’s the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don’t truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I’m always trying to balance that with what is really important.’

‘My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn’t ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn’t know if I would be able to keep my house.’

‘The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I’m incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I’m blessed, and aware that it isn’t going to last forever.’

‘I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.’

‘I’ve made over 20 movies, and five of them are good.’

‘Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I’m not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.’

Patrick Stewart Quotes: Captain Jean-Luc Speaks His Mind

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:07:06 +0000

‘As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn’t interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.’

‘During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that’s all. It was part of our job.’

‘The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they’re renegotiating contracts.’

‘Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.’

‘I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.’

‘I’ve met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it’s just not worth working with them.’

‘I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.’

‘I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It’s absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.’

‘But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.’

‘I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.’

Hillary Clinton Quotes: Thoughts From America’s Most Famous Female Politician

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:49:47 +0000

‘As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.’

‘Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.’

‘I believe in a zone of privacy.’

‘I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies – smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.’

‘No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.’

‘The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.’

‘You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.’

‘Let’s not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.’

‘The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.’

‘You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.’

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Richard Dean Anderson Quotes: The Man Who Was MacGyver Speaks

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:31:10 +0000

‘There’s editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there’s not a lot of that for me.’

‘You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.’

‘Dogs are my favorite people.’

‘I’ve been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.’

‘They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I’m trying to attach my name to.’

‘Being a father, well, I don’t know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just ’cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.’

‘I’ve also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it’s essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.’

‘Oh, who am I trying to kid? It’s a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It’s nuts. You know, I can’t be a part of it.’

‘But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They’re the best. So it’s the food.’

‘We’re all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we’re dealing with, there’s usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that’s floating around.’

Mark Zuckerberg Quotes: The Thoughts Of Facebook’s Founder

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:49:57 +0000

‘By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.’

‘A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.’

‘I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.’

‘People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.’

‘The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’

‘The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.’

‘The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.’

‘When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.’

‘I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.’

‘There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.’

Alan Turing Quotes: Interesting Reason From The Code-Breaking Genius

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:33:42 +0000

‘Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.’

‘A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.’

‘Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.’

‘No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.’

‘We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.’

‘Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.’

‘I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.’

‘I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.’

‘A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.’

‘We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.’

Roy Lichtenstein Quotes: The Artist Who Changed Art

Yellow Magpie — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:08:35 +0000

‘I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.’

‘In America the biggest is the best.’

‘Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.’

‘I don’t have big anxieties. I wish I did. I’d be much more interesting.’

‘I’m not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.’

‘Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.’

‘I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.’

‘Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.’

‘I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.’

‘I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?’

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