When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.