“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful...”

“I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of...”

“Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.”

“When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!”

“The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p...”

“Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.”

“GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.”

“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”

“If you are in motion than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are emotional than you are in an agitated state.”

“Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”

“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still”