One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‘We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.’
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I’ve showed them a certain respect for this career.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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