"My freshman year of high school I joined……" — Eric Allin Cornell

"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."

— Eric Allin Cornell

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21 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Eric Allin Cornell has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency…
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my…
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy…
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the…
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years…
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than…
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder…
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

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More Chess Quotes

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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least… — David Bailey
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. — Dave Barry
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess,… — Madeleine Albright
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. — Alexander Alekhine
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex… — Steve Carell
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to… — Graydon Carter
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. — Winston Churchill
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. — Woody Allen

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