Anton Zeilinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
-- Anton Zeilinger

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We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.
-- Anton Zeilinger

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I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
-- Anton Zeilinger

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It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.
-- Anton Zeilinger

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Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.
-- Anton Zeilinger

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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

Anton Zeilinger famous quotes

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