“Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electric...” — A. S. Byatt Quote

“Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.”

“The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.”

“In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.”

“These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.”

“I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.”

“The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.”