Impactor Quotes

#1. In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Seth Shostak

#2. I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

#3. You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love.

Harold Bloom

#4. We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

J.K. Rowling

#5. If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

Alexei Navalny

#7. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

#8. I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

Claude Lelouch

#9. When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Maria Semple

#10. The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#11. I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Rodney Brooks