Paul McEuen Quotes
Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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Lets take full advantage of this discovery
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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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In a marriage, you and your partner come first.
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For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
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As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
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Defensively, it was kind of frustrating. I have to compliment their quarterback. He did such a good job. What an excellent competitor.
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No status right now. It's not something I said I'd even consider until after the TCU game. It's after the game and I haven't seen him. So, I'm assuming he's quit the team for good and until I know different, we'll see. I won't entertain anything until he shows he has a good reason or he can justify what his actions have been.
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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.
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From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
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That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
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You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
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We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.
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On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
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We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.
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Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.
