George Whitesides Quotes

#1. Who... who are you?"
"I am what you will soon be. I am a survivor.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

Bruce Lee

#3. Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

George M. Whitesides

#4. Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

George M. Whitesides

#5. I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

Solomon Burke

#6. Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

George M. Whitesides

#7. I long for some terrific disaster. Earthquake. Spectacular explosion. Her mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated, along with everybody else for miles around.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

George M. Whitesides

#9. We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

George M. Whitesides

#10. In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Thurston Clarke

#11. A kid of your age - any kid - could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Stephen King

#12. I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

Thomas Love Peacock