"Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips."

-- George M. Whitesides

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“...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.”
“I like business and personal life to be distinct.”
“You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
“Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.”
“There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.”
“I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.”
“Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.”
“I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.”

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