1022 – “Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster.”

-Bill Nye [Attributed, See Source Notes]

1017 – “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.”

-Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama [Attributed]

1000 – “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

-anonymous

905 – “By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free. My Nation’s journey toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all.”

-George W Bush, 43rd President of the United States of America

904 – “When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level.”

-Brian Greene

874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

–John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

761 – Washington on the State of the World and Its Future

“On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.”

–George Washington, 1st President of the United States of America

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748 – “When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

–Dian Fossey [Attributed]

736 – “We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy. So we choose a different path, collecting as little of your data as possible, being thoughtful and respectful when it’s in our care because we know it belongs to you.”

–Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

Today is Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

698 – “He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.”

– Kalchas Theostoridis in Homer’s The Iliad [See Source Notes]