"Be like a duck," says Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine, actor

My children will not inherit the Europe I hoped for.

Roger Cohen, journalist, post-Brexit , in NY Times

We want not just intelligent machines but intelligible machines.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.

Jesse Williams, actor, on racism against the black community, at the BET Awards

I have accomplished nothing without a little taste of fear in my mouth.

Beyoncé, pop singer and actor

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Satyajit Ray, filmmaker

Every freedom we (women) have today, we have because of feminists.

Arundhati Roy, author and activist, in Elle magazine

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Alvin Toffler, writer