I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
Thomas Campbell, Poet (1777) |
Vincent Canby, Critic (1924) |
Donald Evans, Public Servant (1946) |
Peggy Fleming, Athlete (1948) |
Bobbie Gentry, Musician (1944) |
Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic (1916) |
Juliana Hatfield, Musician (1967) |
Norman Lear, Producer (1922) |
Carol Leifer, Comedian (1956) |
Richard Aldington, Writer (1962) |
John Dalton, Scientist (1844) |
Osbert Lancaster, Cartoonist (1986) |