David Gross
David Gross
David Jonathan Grossis an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a faculty member in the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently affiliated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth19 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
We look at the Internet's success and want to make sure we keep the recipe for it. If you modify it, the risk is that you come out with something far worse.
We've been very, very clear throughout the process that there are certain things we can agree to and certain things we can't agree to, ... It's not a negotiating issue. This is a matter of national policy.
What's gonna happen is they're gonna say holy -- who is this guy that can raise this kind of money and everyone else will come and try to hire you,
We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet, ... Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.
We will not agree to the UN taking over the management of the internet,
We will not agree to the United Nations taking over management of the internet.
Until I see an announcement that they officially have a league, I'm not going to comment. The NLL throws some things out there. They talked about having a second indoor league, the NLL2, and they've talked about expanding to something like 29 teams. None of that has come to fruition.
Every check we deposited ... is verified and accounted for. So this is a shock. We listen but don't condemn until we know the whole story.
We will be looking at all of the proposals through the eyes of what they will do to freedom of expression.
No agreement is preferred to a bad agreement,
Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.
When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.
Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there,
There's nothing new in this document that wasn't already out there before,