An eclectic collection that made us pause for thought.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
The future is the only certain thing that does not exist.
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
I would be ashamed if I ever said anything I didn’t believe in, to get on personally.
He (Tony Blair) squandered a massive landslide from an electorate hungry for change, poured billions of public pounds into private pockets and accelerated the growing gap between rich and poor.
To be honest, I don’t like students very much.
There is no business on a dead planet.
Less inequality is likely to make economies work better by increasing the ability of the entire population to participate, on more equal terms. An important condition for this, in turn, is that politics not be unduly beholden to wealth.
When you have time to go fishing, you don’t have the money. And when you have the money, you don’t have the time.
You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
The birth of the lounge suit has been the death of creativity for men’s dress.
You should sleep as little as you can, and try and change the world.
After you have about $5m to $10m, your lifestyle doesn’t really change that much.
Doing nothing is not an option.
The question is, why are private details that are transmitted online any different from the details of our lives that are stored in our private journals? There shouldn’t be this distinction between digital and printed information.
It will be a war in which we risk almost everything of which we are proud, and in which we stand to gain nothing.
Even those who have worked for the war will enter it without enthusiasm, and amongst the majority of our countrymen the thought of it has aroused the deepest misgivings and the most poignant regret.
Some day we shall all regret it.
What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.
There are two things people always pay for, food and sex. I wasn’t any good at cooking.
This world doesn’t make it easy with the constant pressures to conform and be ‘normal’. But when I realised that nobody was normal, it was a huge liberation, one that transformed my life.
A party full of ‘likeable’ people doesn’t bear contemplating.
The first time I see a jogger smiling. I’ll try it.
For me, a book is a room in your head that holds secrets.
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
I don’t go to orgies, because when you leave you don’t know who to thank.
The law is human and flawed. Just like newspapers or medicine or the internet, it embodies all that is brilliant and awful about humankind.
We are mired in a malaise, from which we are not likely to emerge any time soon.
A resonant rhyme is like a first kiss. We all know what osculation is but, by God, it’s different when your own lips are involved.
A joke is perhaps the final and most beautiful affirmation of what it is to be fully human.
The failure of the US’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in their total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries they fiddle with.
Because we’re the only private company in he world sending people to space, the next few months are obviously something that has a halo effect on every Virgin company.
On Jeff Koons:
He shows what happens when money and celebrity become yardsticks for culture. It is not a pretty sight.
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
I attribute my long and continuing life to my prudent avoidance of cricket and all other forms of sport.
I always thought old age would take longer.
If I weren’t scared, I’d be awfully dangerous!
As ever, power is exercised by those who want power. And anyone who wants power definitely ought to be denied it.
As a coach, you are only a dancing bear for the stars.
A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there is less of you.
I’m part of the art world.. but there are certain standardising forces in the art market inimical to creativity.
Having a free press doesn’t mean anyone cares.
Definition of Pop Art:
Nostalgia for Now.
The biggest handicap that conservation faces is that we humans still consider ourselves to be separate from the rest of life, and the rest of life is merely there to support us. It is infantile arrogance.
Overheard:
Q:
“Why are you still working in your 70s?”
A:
“We need the money to pay for my wifestyle!”
I’m a poor person who has money.
I always ask a man with a beard, when you eat Shredded Wheat, how do you know when you’ve finished?
Definition – Washington DC
A city where men wear suits three sizes too large for them and dinners always start too early.
Handshake contracts are valid. The Anglo-Saxon system is not the same as the system here in Central Europe.
The average expert is about as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee.
Anyone found here at night will be found here in the morning.
Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth or the skies above the earth…. They are material things even though the metaphors used to describe them are often immaterial and wildly misleading. The Cloud is buildings with servers in them.