"I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been."

-- David Blackwell

#Research Quotes #Not Interested Quotes #Areas Quotes

“Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.”
“If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.”
“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”
“Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.”

Source : Source: salvage.zone
“Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.”
“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.”
“I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.”

Source : "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.
“I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.”

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