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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."
"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
"The unexpected moment [is] always sweeter."
"My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped."
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
Explore more quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
"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."
"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."
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
"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."
"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."
"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
"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."
"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."
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