Burton
Burton
amongst fashion generally good hath italians man mistress poets
Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress
innovation renewal laboratory
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
moving long innovation
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
mistake sometimes obsolescence
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
jobs ideas community
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
technology needs world
Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
girl lonely art
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.
color people important
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
attitude men fifteen
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
voice play singers
I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.
buddhist monk buddhist-monk
I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.
i-can blogs seconds
I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.
song thinking careers
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.