Kurt Kleiner:

Time for a pop quiz.

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George.

Jack is married but George is not.

Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

* Yes
* No
* Cannot be determined

Christopher J. Ferguson:

Many people like to think that any child, with the proper nurturance, can blossom into some kind of academic oak tree, tall and proud. It's just not so.

Kleiner:

How a question is asked dramatically affects the answer, and can even lead to a contradictory answer.

Steve Bellovin et al:

Architecture matters a lot, and in subtle ways.

Kleiner:

Your algorithmic mind can be ready to fire on all cylinders, but it can't help you if you never engage it.

Brian Ulrich:

Over the past 7 years I have been engaged with a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live.

Kleiner:

We are all "cognitive misers" who try to avoid thinking too much.

Walter Russell Mead:

The difference between fundamentalists and evangelicals is not that fundamentalists are more emotional in their beliefs; it is that fundamentalists insist more fully on following their ideas to their logical conclusion.