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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent."
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"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
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"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
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"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
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"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."
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"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
Business
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
Poems
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
Creativity
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
Music
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
Experience
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
God
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
Creativity
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
Creativity
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