He's not against the radio telescope surveys that have been the mainstay of SETI for the past 50 years, but he says maybe we're looking for the wrong thing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

It may have been true or maybe not, but it made people start looking at the past, what really happened between 1940 and 1945, or '44, end of '44, what really happened.

也许是真的也许是假的,但是让人们开始回首往事,在1940年到1945年间到底发生了什么,或者44年,44年末,到底发生了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"Looking in the past, I think there has a weakness in the enforcement of the law and it has a lot to do with the way the law has been interpreted, to be honest."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

Smith believes after centuries of Ottoman control, Western colonization and decades of conflict Arabs are trying to stabilize and strengthen their societies and looking for that strong horse to lead them out of their troubled past.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18