The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the... →
J. G. Ballard
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from... →
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change -... →
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the... →
Steve Ballmer
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international... →
Ed Balls
Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be... →
James Balog
Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the... →
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story... →
Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything... →
Mario Balotelli