"The trademark of the boomer was that they wanted familiarity, safety, and comfort ... what we’re finding is that the next-generation consumer wants the exact opposite of what we’re delivering."

— Wolfgang Lindlbauer, chief discipline leader, global operations at Marriott International.

"Your own people are laughing at you, sir."

— SnapCar founder Dave Ashton, in an open letter to French President François Hollande about his handling protests against Uber

"If it were legal, I would buy a boatload of Apple stock. This thing is going to be really big."

• Barack Obama, after getting a sneak peek at the still-secret iPhone in 2007.

"When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so."

• Pope Francis, declaring that theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real.

"Fortunately, Michelle had hers."

• President Obama, recounting how his credit card had been rejected at a tony New York restaurant as possible fraud.

“Done. Completely. Not only Mitt and I are done, but the kids are done. Done. Done. Done.”

• Ann Romney, on the prospects her husband Mitt will run for president in 2016 for the third time. 

"Vision without execution is just hallucination. You gotta have teams of people who have great visionaries, but also people who can get things done. It's when you combined the imagination of humans with the processing power of machines — that's where the real innovation comes."

• Walter Isaacson, on innovation (interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning)

"Of course, now I know it's possible."

• Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (retired), who successfully executed an emergency water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City five years ago today, asked on Face The Nation whether he thought he could do such a thing again.

"Do you go want me to go further?"

• New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, unzipping his jacket to reveal the layers he wore to an inquiring news crew as he shoveled snow in front of his Brooklyn home dumped in a massive blizzard his third day in office.

"If you want to get personal, that's fine. I'm sticking to my record, and talk is cheap. You're going to see action like you've never seen before."

• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has put his name on the ballot to run for another term despite repeated  calls for him to step down after admitting he smoked crack "in a drunken stupor."