#up

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#backgrounds #bring #come #completely #controversies

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#between #connection #early #find #hope

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. ↗

— Norman Lear

#commercials #end #get #i #interrupt

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ↗

— Norman Lear

#big #big ones #collect #come #happiness

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#dexter #dreaming #episodes #everyone #five

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

#curtain #i #interrupted #want #went

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#does #doubt #himself #man #reassured

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#believe #deny #i #i am #i believe

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#first #group #i #internet #make

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#details #doing #end #letting #lot