I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

I am not a televangelist.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

Everybody is entertained to death.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

History is more or less bunk.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges… If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I’d care to know about you.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.