Melnap Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit. — Fiona Apple

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances. — Naveen Jain

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein. — George W. Bush

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession. — Kevin Ayers

For an enzyme to be functional, it must fold into a precise three-dimensional shape. How such a complex folding can take place remains a mystery. A small chain of 150 amino acids making up an enzyme has an extraordinary number of possible folding configurations: if it tested 1,012 different configurations every second, it would take about 1,026 years to find the right one. . . . Yet, a denatured enzyme can refold within fractions of a second and then precisely react in a chemical reaction. . . . [I]t demonstrates a stunning complexity and harmony in the universe.21 — T. Colin Campbell

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead. — Rajneesh

Chief Marilyn Slett, president of Coastal First Nations, is well aware of the forest's importance: "Our leaders understand our well being is connected to the well being of our land and waters...If we use our knowledge and our wisdom to look after [them], they will look after us into the future." The Kichiwa of Sarayaku, Ecuador, see their forest as "the most exalted expression of life itself. — Peter Wohlleben

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals. — Mary Lou Retton

When I heard what the "B" in LGBTQ stood for, my first feeling was the settling of pieces into order. — Megan Erickson

You have to be a freak in order to be different. — Jimi Hendrix

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. — Garry Shandling

The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do. — Laura Poitras

Also, people who did drugs were boring. Hopelessly, relentlessly boring. Drugs made them either too slow or too fast, and mostly they talked about drugs. — Cassandra Clare

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined. — Tom Frieden