▶ "There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time."; "There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience."; "Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."; "Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."; "Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."; …"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."; "I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated."; "Biology has at least 50 more interesting years."; "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."; "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."; "The way to succeed is to double your error rate."; "The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."; "Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."; "Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."; "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."; "If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."; "Good design is good business."; "Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."; "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."; "A manager is an assistant to his men."; "You should not ask questions without knowledge."; "You can not define being exactly on time."; "Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures."; "When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering."; "We are here to make another world."; "The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."; "The emphasis should be on why we do a job."; "The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work."; "Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action."; "Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."; "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."; "Lack of knowledge... that is the problem."; "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."; "Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."; "If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing."; "Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!"; "Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."; "Any manager can do well in an expanding market."; "All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride."; "Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live."; "I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe."; "It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does."; "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed."; "It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business."; "MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."; "My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother."; "I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated."; "Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs."; "A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova."; "The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age."; "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."; "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."; "Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction."; "A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United."; "Every problem that is interesting is also soluble."; "Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore."; "And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."; "You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going."; "To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old."; "A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."; "It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."; "Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."; "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."; "Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans."; "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."; "Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."; "The sphinx will always have to be looked after."; "Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."; "Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."; "It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb."; "I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."; "I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."; "I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."; "As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."; "Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job."; "The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."; "Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose."; "Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans."; "In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use."; "I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."; "From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer."; "We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."; "Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago."; "Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible."; "To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."; "My family gave me the best in education."; "My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."; "Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background."; "In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe."; "In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."; "I was particularly good at math and science."; "I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."; "I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."; "At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."; "At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math."; "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."; "Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."; "This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost."; "This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths."; "The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."; "The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."; "The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people."; "The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god."; "The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."; "That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."; "Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."; "In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual."; "In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."; "But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers."; "The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere."; "The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study."; "He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed."; "All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law."; "What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?"; "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."; "Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."; "To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."; "To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."; "There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."; "There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."; "There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."; "The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."; "The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."; "The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."; "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."; "The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."; "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."; "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."; "The future is today."; "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."; "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."; "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."; "Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."; "No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition."; "No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."; "Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."; "Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."; "It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."; "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."; "In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."; "He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."; "There it is. Take it."; "If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."; "I envy the dead."; "The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work."; "Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built."; "You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."; "There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state."; "The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting."; "The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."; "The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully."; "The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side."; "The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."; "Taiwan is a major economy."; "So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."; "Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."; "I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia."; "East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century."; "Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century."; "The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician."; "Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."; "Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists."; "A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less."; "Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."; "All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown."; "You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."; "We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes."; "True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person."; "The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."; "Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts."; "And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."; "Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science."; "We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions."; "The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."; "The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved."; "The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline."; "The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis."; "The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction."; "Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."; "It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis."; "In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid."; "In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority."; "For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established."; "Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development."; "Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."; "When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."; "This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."; "The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."; "The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."; "Sure, but competition is good for the user."; "Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software."; "Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."; "One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."; "My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."; "Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."; "Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."; "Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."; "In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."; "I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."
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