Pepperberg Alex Quotes

#1. Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

John Godfrey Saxe

#2. Applause is the most powerful thing ... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

C. C. H. Pounder

#3. From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Billy Crystal

#4. Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. I don't believe there are readers and non-readers; I believe there are those who've found the right books and those who haven't--yet!

C.C. Payne

#6. Freelancing is tough. It can be very difficult, in fact. It can wear people down, making them lose sight of what they used to love because they have to do everything else just to get by.

Mason Hipp

#7. So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn't worth the trouble - though it would definitely be green.

Randall Munroe

#8. Don't confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on - but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.

Ed Catmull

#9. A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

Joanne Harris

#10. When words fail music speaks.

Irena Huang

#11. What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#12. I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Shigeru Miyamoto