"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"