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Quotes by Scientist
"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."
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"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."
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"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
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"The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way."
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"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
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"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online."
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"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing."
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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
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"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."
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"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
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"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."
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"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
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"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
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"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am."
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"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
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"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
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"Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere."
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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
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"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
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"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
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"Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work."
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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
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"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
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"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
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"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
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"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
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"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
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