If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.
