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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
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He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the…
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If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
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Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we…
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough…
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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
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Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets…
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It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense,…
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…
— Walter Bagehot
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away…
— Dennis Banks
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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
— Stephen Breyer
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
— Stephen Breyer
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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
— Dick Cheney
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so…
— Marcello Malpighi
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