“In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, a...” — Giles Foden Quote

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.