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593 Scientist Quotes

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

Each Function Weapons Gotta
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Dust Enormity Numerous Sand
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Arbitrary Between Boundary Earth
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Deal Experience Human Lot
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Accessible Basically Goal Information
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I can't really comment on rumors.
Comment Really Rumors
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Always Basically Engine Everything
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Few Managers Many Rather
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Calculate Circular Complicated Importance
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Beach Company Ended Long Time
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Changing Changing The World Excited Get
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Access Care Driving Going
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Advances Around Ask Been
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Better Clean Clean Energy Energy
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Always Area Big Big Companies
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Burning Deploy Effect Environment
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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Computer Computing Doing Kind
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Change Incremental Need Revolutionary
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For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

About Both Important Me
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

About Conversation Democracy Going
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Both Combine Company Electric
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Companies Fundamentally Future Lots
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Artistic Company Component Important
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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Affects Beautiful Build Create
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Best Best Way Come Companies
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Best Customers Everyone Evil
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Competition Crazy Dreams Easier
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Bed Dream Dreaming Gone
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

Always Annoying Believed Communication
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Google Great May Still
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Answer Any Everyone Idea
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Because Boring Building Change
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Any Car Discipline Interested
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Actions Being Capable Moral
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Term Slight Useful Natural
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Book Clumsy Cruel Devil
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Better Error Fact Good
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Control Highest Moral Stage
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

View Each Gain Created
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Children Future One Present
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Greater Means Rate Tends
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Ask Clueless Curious Dumb
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Exploration Force Itself Nature
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We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

About Earth Live Make
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
Before Creative Most Motivated
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