"I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing"

#Stupid Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
“As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.”
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”
“A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.”
“As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.”
“Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge....”
“In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.”
“I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.”

Source : "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research" by Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.

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