"The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field."

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Source : "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

Aubrey de Grey

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“I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.”
“I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
“Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.”
“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”
“I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (1824). “The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Antiquities of the Jews. With the life of Josephus”, p.202
“This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and timeâ€¦I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.”

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