Max Fischer: [to Dr. Peter] I was punched in the face. What's your excuse?
Peter Falk: To smoke, and have coffee - and if you do it together, it's fantastic.
Peter's Little Sister: I'm a princess. What are you? Logan: I'm the Wolverine.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
