“A young person today has a nanosecond attention span, so whatever you do in a humor has to be short. Younger people do not wait for anything that takes time to develop. We're going totally to one-liners. Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.”

Mitch All Together (2003)

The Power of Now (1997)

Source: Fly by Night

Address http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html/ to the 2010 TED conference (13 February 2010) <br class="br">Context: Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. … Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t bet against yourself. And take risk. NASA has this phrase that they like, &quot;Failure is not an option.&quot; But failure has to be an option. In art and exploration, failure has to be an option. Because it is a leap of faith. And no important endeavour that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. … In whatever you are doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.

Source: Vivek Ranadive, ‎Kevin Maney (2011) The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough. p. 109

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 160

As quoted in &quot;Bill Kristol: &#x27;I&#x27;ve Always Been More Anti-Baby Boomer and More Pro-Millennial&#x27;&quot; https://bold.global/reneebc/2018/10/30/bill-kristol-ive-always-been-more-anti-baby-boomer-and-more-pro-millennial/ (30 October 2018), by Renee Brown-Cheng, Bold <br class="br">2010s, 2018

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

Source: The Fifth Mountain