For me, if 'Maryland' became half of what 'Searchin' My Soul' became, as far as radio play goes, I would be thrilled.
I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.
There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
