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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio."
"I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side."
"I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride."
"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
"I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years."
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"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."
"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."
"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"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 certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
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