People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

When I came into office people said 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch people smile at us.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me but I also smile right back if someone waves which helps.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

I enjoy jokes smiling and making people smile. I may be a little different but that's OK who wants to be normal anyway?

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries no problems.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Of course not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments but for the people who are willing to go out and do that - if the experiments don't work then it means it's not science.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

I finally decided one day reading science fiction magazines of the time I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that head-on.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered from observations science had made that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space the more people you have the better.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering computer science mathematics.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists to experts in coding and to young people about.