Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of ...
BILL NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
BILL NYE The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYE Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYE Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybod...
BILL NYE Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding e...
BILL NYE Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
BILL NYE NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE Science rules!
BILL NYE I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don...
BILL NYE When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very differe...
BILL NYE If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of lau...
BILL NYE Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...
BILL NYE If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll ...
BILL NYE Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
BILL NYE Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of ext...
BILL NYE If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many w...
BILL NYE Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious env...
BILL NYE Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over ...
BILL NYE Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can ev...
BILL NYE But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellec...
BILL NYE You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is ...
BILL NYE Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
BILL NYE I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000...
BILL NYE Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
BILL NYE When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
BILL NYE If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilizati...
BILL NYE I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I...
BILL NYE There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and e...
BILL NYE I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I sti...
BILL NYE When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk
BILL NYE Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a re...
BILL NYE My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. H...
BILL NYE One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve ...
BILL NYE There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Ea...
BILL NYE I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea o...
BILL NYE I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I...
BILL NYE We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. T...
BILL NYE I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on...
BILL NYE Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real...
BILL NYE What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here...
BILL NYE My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b...
BILL NYE Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ...
BILL NYE He's not going to get re-elected, right...so he can just go for it!
BILL NYE We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up,
BILL NYE There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other i...
BILL NYE It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.
BILL NYE You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go ...
BILL NYE It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens tha...
BILL NYE When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can't be tested thats...
BILL NYE You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a st...
BILL NYE To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.
BILL NYE The(re is no) End
BILL NYE If you’re a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, “Well, that’s the...
BILL NYE The exterior of the building is so remarkable and so unique, with its Normandy inspiration. I mean, ...
BOB NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE The bottom line is it's going to cost a heck of a lot of money to restore these buildings. Could the...
BOB NYE You look at this stuff and you kind of feel like you're in 'the presence,' you know?
BOB NYE Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who se...
JOSEPH NYE It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s h...
CEDRIC NYE All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that ...
ALEX NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hel...
CEDRIC NYE As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always ...
JOSEPH NYE We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to ...
JOSEPH NYE When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.
CEDRIC NYE It's going to destroy something I don't think is that broken.
GREG NYE Matt's coming in, but you really don't want to have to lean on a freshman. It's very different than ...
GREG NYE If we can get into the top 100, being a snowbound team, we're good. If we get a couple key players a...
GREG NYE Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual...
ALEX NYE Here's your first lesson in Zompoc 101, kid. The easiest way to kill a zombie is to kill it before i...
CEDRIC NYE I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.
CEDRIC NYE I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know somet...
CEDRIC NYE The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.”
“Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of...
CEDRIC NYE I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it...
CEDRIC NYE I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse R...
CEDRIC NYE You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the woun...
CEDRIC NYE Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only w...
CEDRIC NYE I still think of myself as an actor,
LOUIS NYE The government really needs to focus on recruiting people for their first job and first opportunity....
JOSEPH NYE We appear to be turning to a conservative cycle in the major countries. President Bush's administrat...
JOSEPH NYE The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing cou...
JOSEPH NYE In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attrac...
JOSEPH NYE She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look ove...
JOSEPH NYE They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're ...
JOSEPH NYE She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in...
JOSEPH NYE getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they k...
JOSEPH NYE I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) Presi...
JOSEPH NYE I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have ...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I do think that all of us think in poems.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some p...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is every...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're l...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go ba...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE The Rider

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cy...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson sin...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE 'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given ...
JODY LYNN NYE You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I've always been amazed by the depth of people's responses in Pittsburgh. People in Pittsburgh seem ...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.
EDGAR WILSON NYE Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
f...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder n...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
JOSEPH S. NYE JR. the location of the server does not seem to give that much power.
JOSEPH S. NYE JR. Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES