Categories Starting with “I”

“If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.”

— Steven Pinker

“In our heads we're all about 33 years old.”

— Douglas Coupland

“When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.”

— Salman Rushdie

“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”

— Cicero

“Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement.”

— Seth Shostak

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.”

— Tim Cook

“The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.”

— Bill Gates

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

— Robert Frost

“I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”

— Walt Disney

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson