Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
