Quotes of the day, December 3

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Michael Oxley

• Essentials
• Commerce
• Aquariums

Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.

Vinod Khosla

• Perfect
• Reason
• Enemy

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Ethel M. Dell

• Death
• Door
• Closing

Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.

Mikhail Bulgakov

• Silent
• Moonlight
• Hallucination

Do you suppose it all means something? That we're being left clues? Perhaps. Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

Colin Cotterill

• Means
• Clues
• Overestimated