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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. ”
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? ”
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. ”
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages. ”
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. ”
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there. ”
China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force. ”
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. ”
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. ”
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. ”