Scientist Quotes

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.