I am sick to my stomach and my heart is broken... We can’t continue to sacrifice OUR children on the altar of the gun lobby. We MUST do better! We must BE better! Let’s call this what it is America, a shameful inversion of our priorities!
I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.
Let’s get serious, y’all. Deviled eggs w/scrimps & caviar. Korean Bar-b-q’d chicken. Roasted oysters...
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
So long, New York. I’ll see you next time, but you don’t have to take my word for it!
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
Happy #MLKDay, Y’all! My favorite King quote...
"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
Today would have been my Mother’s 86th Birthday. In her honor we will gather as a family, celebrate her life and inter her ashes in place she herself selected and purchased while she was still here. True to form, she is calling the shots even now! Happy Birthday, Erma Christian.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
Peace and blessings be upon us all! In gratitude for that which has come our way and courage for the road ahead. To be on this journey with you is the purpose that animates my Soul... #HappyChristmas
I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
I’m officially on holiday... Yippee!
I have a cold... Crap!
Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
SANTA sips his soup from straws. The spoon is for the croutons... #itsabeardthing
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
Just watched the TNG episode, “Second Chances” on @BBCAMERICA. It’s the first episode of anything I ever directed.
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
One of many sleights I am having to endure these days. Thanks! @Lavarbigballer... #bydhttmwfi
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
All literature is political.
With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
This wired generation is kind of cool.
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.
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