Week of February 24

The real problem is we don't have time to act like rock stars. We'd love to take loads of hallucinogenic drugs, but we can never find a free moment. It's getting ridiculous, and it's bad for morale.

Jonny Cragg of Spacehog

 

Week of February 17

The U.S. National Science Foundation surveyed 2,006 randomly selected Americans on their science knowledge and discovered that only one in 10 knew what a molecule was and less than half knew that the Earth rotates around the sun annually.

U.S. National Science Foundation

 

Week of February 10

The more you watch TV, the less you're going to accomplish.

Media mogul Ted Turner, to a class of Harvard law students

 

Week of February 3

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Salvador Dali

 

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