Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Wright

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Dan Farmer

You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

Alfred Kinsey

We are recorders and reporters of the facts - not judges of the behavior we describe.

Yoshiro Mori

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

Yoshiro Mori

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

E. O. Wilson

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

John Dykstra

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

Harvey Cushing

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Sid Meier

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

My scientific interests throughout my undergraduate days were directed to cell biology and especially the mysteries of embryonic development.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

My initial interest, just prior to my work on cytokines, was on cell-mediated immunity and delayed hypersensitivity, mostly with respect to the cells that populated these reactions.

David Rittenhouse

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

George Andrew Olah

From my point of view for husband and wife to closely understand each other's work and may even work together was most desirable.

Brian Behlendorf

I don't get a chance to code any more.

I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.

Brian Behlendorf

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

David Bohm

I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a SYSTEM. A system means a set of connected things or parts.

Paul Berg

Harland Wood, the department head, was an inspiring scientist and teacher but he was also devoted to his students and colleagues.

Queen Mary

When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.

Queen Mary

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

Will Wright

I think by exploring the bad side you're really just mapping the envelope of the system... you're getting a sense of how far off you can go.