The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
