Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes

#1. The codebase turned out to be almost 3 times the size of the web version, with most of the code being new. While building the app, I found many ways to improve and streamline the code and the interface.

Anonymous

#2. Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

Michael Robotham

#3. I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Federico Fellini

#4. John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell

#5. All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#6. Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

#7. A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#8. When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#9. The three processes - people, strategy, and operations - remain the building blocks and heart of good execution.

Ram Charan

#10. I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.

Mildred Dresselhaus

#11. At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#12. The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

Robert Agostinelli

#13. One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#14. Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Honore De Balzac

#15. People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#16. If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy.

Stephan Bauman

#17. Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.

Ann Coulter

#18. Believers in Christ owe nothing to God in payment for salvation ... but they do owe God a life of undivided devotion and service.

Billy Graham

#19. Every once in awhile, have a really good argument with yourself. I mean really get pissed off. Take both sides. Then look in the mirror, and in the middle of the argument say, "You know, you're a pain in my butt. I'm not arguing with you. Get lost.

Art Hochberg

#20. The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

Carl Sagan

#21. My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#22. Generating text yourself requires more cognitive effort than does reading, and effort increases memorability,

Clive Thompson

#23. I envy the man to snatch him up. This will be the only time in life I'm siding with Freud and experiencing 'penis envy'. There will never be a repeat. Can't be associated with too much crazy, I'm juggling enough on my own.

Ambrosea Brown

#24. Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

Mildred Dresselhaus