"The knowledge I am acquiring at school is merely one kind of knowledge, and I want to seek out knowledge in all its forms. Perhaps it is this other knowledge that will give me the power I am seeking: the power of appreciation, of sympathy, of connectedness, of understanding."
- Jay Collier
"I am forever indebted to China for the gift of our daughters. But I do not forget that frightened Chinese mothers had to give up their babies because of government policies that lead to the abandonment—and worse—of little girls. ... We have come to think of Thanksgiving as a holiday for families like us: Those who know that America, whatever its sins, is a refuge in the world."
- Jay Collier
2002: "As Americans have become ever more mobile, and as the social and physical environments we inhabit have become increasingly standardized and interchangeable, the longing for the local, the special, the unique becomes ever more acute. ... The real Maine has been a magnet for tourists for almost as long as it has been a state, and this, paradoxically, may be why it has retained a feeling of authenticity that other parts of northern New England have lost."
- Jay Collier
"It looks like the incredible success of the lipdub produced by students from UQAM in Montreal, QC (more than 2.5 million views as of this writing) has pushed some institutions in the US to finally join the university lipdub movement."
- Jay Collier
Deliberately inflammatory post -- "abuse" "lynching" "flaying" -- or accidentally biased? In any case, the tactic worked. Look at the number of thoughtful comments. Sage on the stage, 1; Wisdom of the noosphere, priceless. Here comes everybody.
- Jay Collier