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Claude Nicollier Quotes

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

Claude Nicollier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: September 2, 1944

Topics

Waves Radio Ground Transparent Far

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

Jim Harrison

Myself Day Job Seriously Taking

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

Joe Rogan

People Think Someone Enjoy Him

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Robert Irwin

Walk Thinking You Fall Mean Room

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

Jeff Buckley

Perfection People Matter Gorgeous

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

Jeff Fortenberry

Think America Congress Out I Think

I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave it special protection, because I had an external partner through the export processing zone.

Roy Bennett

Change Leader Partner Farm Movement

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

Josh Malerman

Dog Space Book Earth First Goes

Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.

Jonathan Ive

Values Who Objects Made Describe

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

Derek Bok

Practice Thinking Questions New

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

Good Problems Deep Questions Problem

I was already committed to a play back in New York about Hans Christian Andersen, where Colleen Dewhurst was going to play my mother. I was excited about that, and I got this script called 'Back to the Future,' and I thumbed through it. Didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention.

Christopher Lloyd

Mother Future New York Hell Play

Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.

Asma Jahangir

Women Religion Society Speak You