Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!' ”

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care. ”

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other. ”

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education. ”

Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away. ”

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple. ”

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. ”

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all. ”

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature. ”

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. ”