“We need to celebrate people - not people who try to get into balloons to go on reality television and not people who lose, you know, 300 pounds on a television show. We need to celebrate the inventors and the scientists and the creators in this country.”—Daniel Pink
“But I can’t compete with drawing pictures. Kids will want to draw pictures. At least with a slate, I can check their hands to see if they erased a picture.”—Adventures in Pencil Integration
“This leadership, as any historian will tell you, drives the economic strength and security of nations. The fall is not from a cliff. More like a slow, downward slide — almost imperceptible from day to day. But as the years pass America will have descended from leaders to players to merely followers as we fade to insignificance, at best hitching a ride on the innovations of others.”—Neil DeGrasse Tyson