Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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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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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
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The notion of "system" has gained central importance in contemporary science, society and life. In many fields of endeavor, the necessity of a "systems approach" or "systems thinking" is emphasized, new professions called "systems engineering," "systems analysis" and the like have come into being, and there can be little doubt that this this concept marks a genuine, necessary, and consequential development in science and world-view.
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
