Gordon Gould Quotes

#1. Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Timothy Keller

#2. I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. 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

#4. I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

Gordon Gould

#5. Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Sarah Lewis

#6. Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

Gordon Gould

#7. His mother had said that men were handsome and women beautiful, but after seeing Benjamin swimming and then lying on his blanket, David knew his mother was completely wrong - Benjamin was beautiful.

Geoff Laughton

#8. That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Gordon Gould

#9. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#10. At once they were absolutely silenced, for money talks in an eloquent voice. Deliberately

Max Brand

#11. When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. 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

#13. The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

Michael Bunker

#14. Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willa Cather

#15. I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

Chris Matthews

#16. I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Sarah Waters

#17. Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

Esha Gupta

#18. But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

Gordon Gould

#19. The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

Pierre De Coubertin