Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

When the Committee for Nuclear Information was organized in St. Louis in 1958, we brought scientists and civic-minded citizens together.

Paul Berg

Literally hundreds of millions of experiments, many inconceivable in 1975, have been carried out in the last 30 years without incident.

Will Wright

We really want to have most of the failure in a game be based on things that the player did, as opposed to things outside of the player's control.

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.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

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.

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.

Alan Perlis

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Steven Chu

Despite the importance of education in our family, my life was not completely centered around school work or recreational reading.

Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Charles Davenport

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Dave Winer

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

Margaret Turnbull

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle.

Jim Jones

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

Cliff Shaw

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.

Cliff Shaw

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Paul D. Boyer

A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.

Donald Cram

One can't, just by writing out line formulas on a two-dimensional sheet of paper, get a feeling for the three-dimensional character of a compound.

Owen Chamberlain

Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

Franz Boas

Ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical and psychical character of men, and of its development under the influence of the surroundings.

Paul Berg

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

Paul D. Boyer

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.

Paul D. Boyer

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

June Singer

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Andy Rooney

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.

Herbert Simon

Behaving like a manager means having command of the whole range of management skills and applying them as they become appropriate.