#wi

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated. ↗

— Emma Watson

#brought #feel #growing #growing up #harry

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind. ↗

— Emma Watson

#always #being #dreamed #fell #film

I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else. ↗

— Emma Watson

#date #else #everyone #i #industry

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. ↗

— James D. Watson

#after #also #appropriate #bipolar #disease

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#am #behind #certain #die #earth

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed