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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
"Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?"
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average."
"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow."
"I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means."
"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
"I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful."
"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
"We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell."
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it."
"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry."
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
"If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself."
"Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights."
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