If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Try to think like a human, ’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘Why should I restrict myself so severely?

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.

It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live underneath them.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.