"We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth."

“In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model,”

Source : "BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets". Bloomberg Technology, April 30, 2013.

“We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us”

“I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.”

“I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.”

Source : Song: White Teeth Teens, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.”

“Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.”

Source : "From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.

“I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me”

“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.”