The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and o...
I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
