Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the other is that of being a strategist. It's a very interesting job I've got.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.
We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am, I am the easiest person to sell as a villain. I'm the perfect target.
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
I don't always match up with guys like Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum, but when I do, those guys are a challenge. Dwight, for example, is quick, explosive, and strong all in one.
If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.
