American Scientist Quotations | Page 2

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

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.

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.

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

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

Fortunately, the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison was outstanding and far ahead of most others in the country.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

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

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.

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.

Our only security is our ability to change.

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

I think for most people, their kind of general aesthetic with games is that the more I control this experience, the better the game is.

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

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.

True enough that standards bodies themselves have weak teeth, but they do have influence and importance when a language begins to be widely used.

We are now awaiting an Ohio state Supreme Court decision to enable us to have a civil hearing. We have extensive evidence on our primary suspect.

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

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

We still get to blow some stuff up. One of the most enjoyable things about doing special effects was going out and blowing up miniatures.

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.

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.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

This time with Xbox 360, we've got the experienced team, we've shipped a lot of console games and built some incredible franchises.

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

There is nothing new about national policies on major social interests such as education or labor - or, for that matter, the environment.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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

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

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

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

Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments.

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.

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.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

It seems like college has become more of a social club.

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

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

It's gotten to the point now where I surf the fan sites everyday and download cool things the fans have created, which is really ironic in a way!

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Still, if they offer me a good job under my conditions - which is that I can do anything I want- then, sure. The NSA is not going to change me.

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

Notably, some nations have enacted legislation that prohibits genetically-modified plants and animals from entering into their food supply.

It was a glimpse into some kind of wonderful world where electricity and mathematics and engineering and nice diagrams all came together.

They would get books on astronomy out of the city library for me. They would allow me stay up late at night to look at things in the sky.

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

I joined Bell Laboratories in the fall of 1978. I was one of roughly two dozen brash, young scientists that were hired within a two year period.

In 1956 I accepted a Hill Foundation Professorship and moved to the medical school campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down...if you wish to be up then get up.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions.

I recall mother's tolerance when she allowed me, at an early age, to take off the hinges and doors of cupboards if I would put them back on.

In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.

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

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

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

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

Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

The information exchanged and gained at scientific conferences and visits has been tremendously important for progress in my laboratory.

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.

And that is reassuring, to see people who are very positive - five years after the first explosion, the first release of code - is a very good thing.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.