A. Kevin Quotes

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived through it.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

So I think I know a little bit about winning, if there's ever a concern.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.