I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

“Giving an Oscar nomination to this film glorifies inexcusable actions. It may even encourage future homicide bombings.”

“If I can just encourage them to try, we learn more from our mistakes sometimes.”

“We are pleased and encouraged by the strong demand we saw for our new and existing products during the quarter.”

“We are encouraged by the higher level of inquiries in repair and conversion, driven by the firm offshore market and infrastructure demand.”

“(I'm) definitely encouraged and enthusiastic that in the end he'll ultimately receive an order granting him a new trial.”

“It has helped us encourage each other since we have a stake in how successful the company is,”