Al David Quotes

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Islands are where species go to die.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.

A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.