“I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.” EnergyRaceClassIssuesEnvironmentMajorsAskingIraqDisasterPlanningDiscussionOur Time Author:Brian Williams
“I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.” WayHas BeensHandsAbleCertainEventsBirthComputerMajorsDrawsMachinesAskingStructureDrawingMotivatedAsking QuestionsExtendingAdventComputer Graphics Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.” IfsWayWritingBelieveMeanCharacterStoriesI BelieveInterestingSituationHellMagicMajorsWeakOkayMarkAskingPlotExaminingInteresting Situations Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.” IfsGivingShouldSaidAnswersPartyMajorsMessagesAskingMeetingsShoesConservativeMinistersPrimeSensiblePrime MinisterConferencesFringeOctoberConservative Party Author:David Trimble