“ A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin
“ Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Harper Lee
“ Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. Issey Miyake
“ I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel. Audrey Hepburn
“ We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life. Auliq Ice
“ The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle.… Ray Kurzweil
