James Gleick Quotes
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
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I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
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There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
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We must not turn away when we hear the cries of the hungry. We must not stand by when we see the killing and terrorizing of the innocent. We should not wait until hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of our fellow human beings have died as occurred in Afghanistan, before we act.
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The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.
