Donald Sadoway Quotes

#1. I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

Anna Chlumsky

#2. I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Oscar Levant

#3. The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Donald Sadoway

#4. How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

Donald Sadoway

#5. In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Donald Sadoway

#6. People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Donald Sadoway

#7. The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

Donald Sadoway

#8. Miz Beauty does not speak. You've got to discover her erogenous zones, her favorite subjects of conversation, her sign, all on your own. Meanwhile, Miz Piggy's coming like an express train. She doesn't get it every day. And she's hell-bent to make the most of it. She wants more, more, more.

Dany Laferriere

#9. As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

George Cukor

#10. Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

Donald Sadoway

#11. If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.

Donald Sadoway

#12. Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

Ted Chiang

#13. With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Donald Sadoway