“Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.”
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“I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.”
“Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.”
“in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.”
“Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.”
“I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'”
“Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.”
“Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.”
“It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.”
“The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.”
“A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.”
“I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.”
“Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”
“How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.”
“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”
“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”
“Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.”
“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”
“By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.”
“What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.”