Attention Quote by Eric Allin Cornell

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in…

— Eric Allin Cornell

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would…

— Eric Allin Cornell

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still…

— Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

— Eric Allin Cornell

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

— Eric Allin Cornell

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

— Eric Allin Cornell

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not…

— Eric Allin Cornell