#nic

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#came #follow #instead #laser #making

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#became #classified #clearance #considered #could

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#answered #believe #communicate #felt #i

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#know #mean #nice #something #will

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#another #communicates #himself #his #makes

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities. ↗

— Heather Graham

#eccentricities #fairly #few #i #just

I think it might be nice to date someone not in the business. ↗