The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
Batman: [to James Gordon] Don't turn around. You're a good cop. One of the few.
If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
