Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
General sources
While speaking with a western journalist during proceedings of the Agartala conspiracy trial. Mujib was released within in seven months of his arrest as a result of mass agitation and wide scale civil disobedience in East Pakistan. http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/08/04/chintito.htm <br class="br">Quote, Other
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
General sources
Ed Koch (1924–2013) former mayor of New York City
Interview ("What Makes a New Yorker"), New York: A Documentary Film.
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
TownHall Meeting At Aviano Air Base in Italy (7 February 2003) https://web.archive.org/web/20070114160540/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t02072003_t0207sdtownhall.html <br class="br">2000s
“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies
Gloria Swanson (1899–1983) American actress
Quoted in Bill Adler, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) p. 52 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KOVGUVYj2XUC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22Age,+if+nothing+else,+entitles+me+to+set+the+record+straight+before+I+dissolve.%22&source=bl&ots=QGbAVbdU0l&sig=G37ipttwzeIIx1L2CAVM2Mz9M60&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VsszT6XYKMqh0QXs5-CiAg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Age%2C%20if%20nothing%20else%2C%20entitles%20me%20to%20set%20the%20record%20straight%20before%20I%20dissolve.%22&f=false
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: This is not a visible revolution and it is not political. You’re dealing with the invisible world of technology.
Politics is absolutely hopeless. That’s why everything has gone wrong. You have ninety-nine percent of the people thinking “politics,” and hollering and yelling. And that won’t get you anywhere. Hollering and yelling won’t get you across the English Channel. It won’t reach from continent to continent; you need electronics for that, and you have to know what you’re doing. Evolution has been at work doing all these things so it is now possible. Nobody has consciously been doing it. The universe is a lot bigger than you and me. We didn’t invent it. If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine.
“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones