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I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
Whatever you do the Daimon Club for sure can do something for you too, of course, and together we can do so much more! Join us!
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?
Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.
Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.
Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.
I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves.
I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.
If you want more kids to become engineers in space, travellers, and pilots, then you have to expose them to those types of careers.
As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.
Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.