"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
"A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information."
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Source: Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.
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