We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in mens mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other mens keeping. – Michel de Montaigne
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. – Jean Rostand
I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. – Jack Kilby
