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"I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park. The plain answer is no. Although excellent, it is not with all its dollars what I would have wished to do with my caree…"

"Nobody bothers crazy people. In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all."

"who had contributed a great deal to the achievement."

"If that were true , then all this progress would have come about thousands of years ago, and not just in the last century or so. But each of the advances... cited were made only recently, after the En…"

"Dynamic restlessness and concern with time would appear to go with high w Achievement and static "classicism" with low n Achievement, but on closer examination many flaws in the analogy are evident."

"People talk a lot about picking out targets and bombing them, individual small targets – in the European climate? I’ve come to the conclusion that people who say that sort of thing not only have never…"

"...look-alike wives for humiliating public appearances...The pseudo-wife's job is to look supportive, while the real spouse is at home throwing his stuff out the window."

"It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the …"

"I find that a paradigm shift takes place in two ways. First, for all scientists to start working on the new paradigm like happened with Newtonian physics, it takes a long time. But there is another wa…"

"I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion."

"It is a testing time for democracy...Democracy, democratic government, calls for harder work, for higher education, for further vision than any form of government known in this world. It has not laste…"

"Now one of the many lessons from the 2003 Canberra bushfires was the need for early, clear and effective communication with the community on the risks ahead, allowing people to plan and make decisions…"

"When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer..."

"Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably r…"

"What Jerry doesn’t seem to be able to get is the fact that if we all go out and Do It! and smash the current state that we will end up with something quite worse. Even if successful, the anarchists ar…"

"Ronnie Bosch sat in his studio, stared long and hard at his drawing board, and groaned."

"If one of you should detect any dissatisfaction or unsettled feeling within your jurisdiction, you should take immediate and concrete steps for the complete removal of these elements … Now the people …"

"An evolving discipline–whether it be history or economics or astrophysics or immunology–is ever dynamically changing. Two steps forward and X steps back, so to speak. Periodically, the scholarly group…"

"is like giving yourself a blood transfusion from your left arm to your right. Nothing is accomplished, except the possibility of spilling blood on the floor. But it's not even that benign."

"What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?" -- Russell: "Not much."