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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."
"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
"Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session, you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer."
"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
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"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."
"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."
"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
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