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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
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"I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me."
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"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
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"My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped."
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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution."
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"I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises."
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"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
Energy
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
Chess
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
Travel
"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
Physics
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
Attention
"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
Wife
"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
Country
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
Chess
"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
Work
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