Alan Stern Quotes

In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

Alan Stern

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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles

GoodMenHandsKnowIgnorantHold

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

Joseph Pulitzer

TimePeopleWillCynicalPressBase

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Cheryl Hines

FatherHeartSeriousMatterDisease

When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

Columbus Short

ActionYouGotComePreparedMovie

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

Alice Dreger

CommitmentChildParentUpAgreement

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Alicia Keys

MyselfListeningAdmitNewNever

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

Shia LaBeouf

LivePeopleDoingOpinionsKnow

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

Tim O'Reilly

PeopleIdeasCareBooksAbout

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Tim Berners-Lee

PeopleThinkFailSocialMachines

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

Ryan Gosling

ActingStillSurprised

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

Richard Cabral

LiveChildrenTogetherWomanBroken

You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'

Lynn Jurich

ChangeDecisionsYouConnectionTry

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