Scientist Quotes

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

The speed of light sucks.

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live.

The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.