Category: Quotations
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Really?
There’s a big difference between making one tiny transistor and connecting a billion of them together to do a useful function.Gordon Moore, co-founder and chair emeritus of Intel, explaining why he is skeptical of the promises claimed for nanotechnology. Infoworld 18 April 2005
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Principles
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
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Television
Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘brightness,’ but it doesn’t work.Gallagher
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Product of your work
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser
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Imaginary Thinking
This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
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Good Fortune
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Fortune cookie from Shuang Cheng Restaurant, 11 Apr 2005