My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.

I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it's an opportunity, and the best thing to do is be thankful for it.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

At a certain point, when I let go and was done - when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective - that's when I healed. Letting go healed me.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.

I'm a human just like anyone else. We all have our problems that we deal with on and off the field. I'm thankful to have a beautiful wife and child that can help ease those problems when you come home.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.