"[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]"

-- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#Editors Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
“The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.”
“The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.”
“We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.”
“We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.”

Source : "The mouse turns 40: An interview with Paul Saffo on technology’s past and future". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. December 5, 2008.
“I'm on a search for the truth,”
“Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.”
“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”

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