Nancy Gibbs Power Quotations

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.