"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."

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Source : "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

Freeman Dyson

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“When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.”
“The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.”
“...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.”

Source : George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz
“I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.”
“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”
“Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.”
“There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.”

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