Basis Quote by Philip Warren Anderson

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

— Jack Kilby

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look…

— Gretchen Rubin

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

— Melita Norwood

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

— Steve Jobs

Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world.

— Pranav Mistry

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

— Mary Ellen Mark

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite…

— Raymond Cattell

The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also…

— Albert Einstein

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

— Michael Dirda

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart…

— Woody Allen

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great…

— Dean Koontz

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

— Thom Mayne