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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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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."
"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them."
"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
"Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand."
"The unsaid rules every conversation."
"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
"The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
"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."
"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"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."
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