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"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."
"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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"Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."
"We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed."
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