Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Vinton Cerf

Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.

Vinton Cerf

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

Vint Cerf

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Hugo Gernsback

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Wilbur Wright

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Richard Bausch

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Meg Browne

Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.

Richard Russo

Ultimately, your #‎ theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

William Butler Yeats

What can I but enumerate old themes?