Burton
Burton
technology years interesting
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
moving long innovation
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
innovation renewal laboratory
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
stuff bad-stuff
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
attitude men fifteen
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
jobs light ideas
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.
color people important
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
girl lonely art
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
training swimmer runners
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
car singing trying
When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.
years bob dylan
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
trying may albums
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
thinking sound compliment
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.