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# Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927, in New York – September 30, 2014) is an American physicist and chemical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

## Quotes

* The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
** in his Nobel Autobiography, edited by Gösta Ekspong (1997). Nobel Lectures in Physics 1991-1995. World Scientific. p. 161. ISBN 9810226780.

### Nobel prize lecture

* Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.
* It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.
** Nobel Lecture, Martin L. Perl, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995

### Essay on Creativity in Science and Engineering

* Common elements of creativity are originality and imagination. Creativity is intertwined with the freedom to design, to invent and to dream. In engineering and science a creative idea is useful only if it meets three conditions: the constraint of the natural laws, the constraint of cost, and the constraint of technical feasibility.
* Imagination and obsession are the keys to getting a good idea. To help your imagination keep your eyes and ears open. Avoid the "not invented here prejudice".
* For every good idea, expect to have five, ten, twenty wrong or useless ideas. You cannot avoid the bad ideas if you keep your imagination free. There is no spam filter for bad ideas.
* You may turn a bad idea into a good idea — don't kill the bad idea prematurely. A bad idea can evolve into a good idea.
* I always look for colleagues who are smart, and who know a lot in many fields. The obvious advantage is that he or she may be able to solve the problem that has produced trouble in your work. Also smart and knowledgeable colleagues can save you time, and are interesting and inspiring!
* The best colleagues are those who will think about your ideas, who will talk with you and offer insight, constructive criticism. No one needs to be crushed for having a new idea.
** "Creativity in Science and Engineering", Martin Perl's blog Reflections on Physics … from the Tau to Dark Energy
# Joseph Brodsky

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, usually anglicized as Joseph Brodsky) (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992.

## Quotes

* The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin: not even by a minority. Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. Its proclivity for such things has to do with its innate insecurity, but this realization, again, is of small comfort when Evil triumphs.
** "A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
* For darkness restores what light cannot repair. There we are married, blest, we make once more the two-backed beast and children are the fair excuse of what we're naked for.
** Quoted in: Drusilla Modjeska, ‎Beth Yahp (1995) Picador New Writing. Vol. 3-4, p. 13
* He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physically because of the bottle. . . . Mentally because of that mixture of impotence and cynicism that corrodes everyone there — the stronger you are the worse it is.
** on what would have become of his friend Mikhail Baryshnikov if he had stayed in Russia, 1988 interview with Arlene Croce, as quoted in The Soloist – How Ballet Saved Baryshnikov, The New Yorker, 11 January 1998.
* It is better to be a total failure in democracy than a martyr or the crème de la crème in tyranny.
** Nobel Prize Lecture (8 December 1987)
* You know, when you go outside on the streets after having spent the day writing, you feel like a foreign body, even in your own country. This sensation perhaps feels more natural when you are really outside your country.
** Talking about exile in the France 3 documentary Joseph BRODSKY – Poète russe, Citoyen américain, 1989.

### Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)

* This is just one example of the trimming of the self that — along with the language itself, where verbs and nouns changed places as freely as one dare to have them do so — bred in us such an overpowering sense of ambivalence that in ten years we ended up with a willpower in no way superior to a seaweed’s.
** p. 14
* The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
** p. 28
* It is the army that finally makes a citizen of you; without it you still have a chance, however slim, to remain a human being.

## External links

* Some prose and essays by Brodsky in Russian
* 21 English poems by Brodsky
* Last published interview
# Lisa Edelstein

Lisa Edelstein (born 21 May 1966) is an American actress and playwright best known for playing Lisa Cuddy on the medical drama series House.

## Quotes

* I became a vegetarian at 15. I was never a big meat eater — I was always picky. I was raised in a kosher home, and if you're raised with a food restriction, it's not that difficult to have another kind of food restriction. … At some point, I had a dream that I was eating chicken. But in the dream, I understood that it was actually miniature human legs and arms. My brain was connecting muscle and bone to another animal. Once I had made that connection, it just wasn't something I wanted to eat.
** "Lisa Edelstein: "I Don't Eat for Entertainment!"", interview with Prevention magazine (7 May 2010).
* Vegetarianism is a really important part of what we need to do to help the environment. The meat industry is really toxic to the environment. The cattle industry — besides the fact that there's a lot of cruel things happening — the manure is extremely toxic. We just need to pull back as a culture as much as we can.
** "Lisa Edelstein's Exclusive Interview", video interview with PETA (11 April 2012).
# Andy Samberg

Andrew David Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and a member of the comedy troupe the Lonely Island. He is a repertory player on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend, Arrested Development, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Samberg played the lead role in the 2007 film Hot Rod.

## Quotes

* We were not aware of YouTube until "Lazy Sunday." We’d had our own website with streaming capabilities. After "Lazy Sunday," we were like, "Why are we paying for bandwidth and shit?"
** Rapkin, Mickey (20 February 2020). Andy Samberg Is Ready for Anything | Men's Journal Cover Story. Men's Journal. Retrieved on 8 June 2020.
* You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
** Quoted in Monica Kim, "Andy Samberg on SNL, his hair and other things not in a box," NorthbyNorthwestern.com (April 16, 2008).
# Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (4 July 1927 – 26 August 2018) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his comedies.
    See also Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Goodbye Girl, Murder by Death, and The Odd Couple.

## Quotes

* Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage…Like two out of every ten couples.
** Mother, in Barefoot in the Park (1963); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: New American Library, 1986) vol. 1, p. 207
* And so she lived ... hopefully ... ever after.
** Sweet Charity (1966); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: Random House, 1991) vol. 3, p. 113
* Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
** Interviewed in Newsweek, (2 February 1970)
* You're welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.
** Evy, in The Gingerbread Lady (1970); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: Random House, 1971) vol. 2, p. 76
* There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
** Interviewed in Playboy (February 1979)
* People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?
** New York Times, June 4, 1984.
** On receiving an honorary degree from Williams College
* Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
** The New York Times (March 24, 1985)
* A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.
** Rewrites (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 105
* If you can go through life without ever experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. And if you've gone through pain and think you know exactly why, you haven't examined all the options.
** The Play Goes On (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999) p. 260

## Quotes about Neil Simon

* Neil Simon strikes me less as the new Moliere than as a rattier Rattigan.
** Andrew Sarris, "Films in Focus". The Village Voice (May 20, 1971)
# Ali Baba

Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, professionally known as Ali Baba, is a Nigerian stand-up comedian, master of ceremonies and actor.

## Quotes

* Comedian is not defined by age. You can still perform as long as there are people who listen to you.
** I see success that doesn’t help others as failure, says Ali Baba. 4 July 2020, Punch Newspaper.
* If your success doesn’t make others a success, then you’re a failure. Your success should affect others positively. If not; then, it’s selfish success.
** I see success that doesn’t help others as failure, says Ali Baba. 4 July 2020, Punch Newspaper.
* What you bring to the table doesn’t have to be cash. Sometimes it is Understanding, respect, and money management.
Alibaba Advises Women On Priorities To Offer In A Relationship. 27 December 2023, News Telegraph.
# D. James Kennedy

Dennis James Kennedy (3 November 1930 – 5 September 2007) was an American pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries (now known as D. James Kennedy Ministries), the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group.

## Quotes

* The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.
** "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993.
* Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.
** "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference February, 2005
* How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.
** Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul D. James Kennedy, Zondervan Publishing House, 1997, p. 80
* The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization … Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race'...
** Kennedy Calls for Constitutional "Firewall" to Protect Marriage Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003
# Maria Bartiromo

Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street on the Fox Business Network as well as Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.

## Quotes

* I said to myself ‘I'm going to own this job. I'm going to make sure that I know this better than all of these guys and they're not gonna be able to push me around
** Bartiromo's advice to women in the workplace: I didn't let NYSE men push me around" (October 15, 2019)
* I think right now the biggest challenge of what the U.S. is facing in terms of standing up to China is the corporate sector
* You’ve got corporations that see 1.2 billion people in China and those are many potential consumers for them. China is aware of that market potential. You’re dealing with a communist country and it’s foreign to our approach to governance and business. But our companies made a deal: get access to the sheer volume of people there in exchange for playing by the CCPs rules, whatever those might be. That is a very dangerous position to be in, particularly as the U.S. government is now recognizing them as the single biggest threat the country faces.
** "Maria Bartiromo Takes On China In Latest Book, ‘The Cost’" (October 20, 2020)
# Ira Levin

Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter and songwriter.

## Quotes

* He touched me... Control myself and try to act As if I remember my name But he touched me...he touched me... And suddenly nothing is the same!
** "He touched me", song lyric from Drat! The Cat! (1965)
* I feel guilty that Rosemary's Baby led to The Exorcist, The Omen [...] A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books. Of course, [...] I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
** Interviewed by Mary McNamara "The Art of Darkness" Los Angeles Times (September 22, 2002)
** Unlike the films Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), The Omen (1976) is not based on a pre-existing work.

### Rosemary's Baby (novel, 1967)

* Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
** Opening words.
* Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveller.

### The Boys from Brazil (novel, 1976)

* Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

## Quotes about Ira Levin

* [Levin] is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel; in terms of plot, he makes what the rest of us do look like those five-dollar watches you can buy in the discount drugstores.
** Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)
# Edmund Phelps

Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr. (born July 26, 1933) is an American economist, and McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University since 1982. He is also the director of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

## Quotes

* The stampede toward “rational expectations” — widely thought to be a “revolution,” though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium—derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.
** Edmund S. Phelps (2007) "Foreword," in Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg, Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk.
* What theory can we use to get us out of the impending slump quickly and reliably? To use the 'new classical' theory of fluctuations begun at Chicago in the 1970s – the theory in which the "risk management" models are embedded – is unthinkable, since it is precisely the theory falsified by the asset price collapse. The thoughts of some have turned to John Maynard Keynes. His insights into uncertainty and speculation were deep. Yet his employment theory was problematic and the 'Keynesian' policy solutions are questionable at best....At the end of his life Keynes wrote of 'modernist stuff, gone wrong and turned sour and silly'. He told his friend Friedrich Hayek he intended to re-examine his theory in his next book. He would have moved on. The admiration we all have for Keynes's fabulous contributions should not sway us from moving on.
** Edmund Phelps "Keynes had no sure cure for slumps."in: The Financial Times. Columbia University, November 4, 2008.
* When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut
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### "Which Way Forward for Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis?" 2013

    See Roman Frydman#"Which Way Forward for Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis?" 2013
# Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 28, 2014) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.

## Quotes

* A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk The first song of his happiness, and the song woke His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
** First Song (1983).
* The appeal to heaven breaks off. The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness. It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
** Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1976).
* The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
** Saint Francis and the Sow (1986).
* I take a wolf's rib and whittle it sharp at both ends and coil it up and freeze it in blubber and place it out on the fairway of the bears.
** The Bear (1974).

## Quotes about Galway Kinnell

* I read a lot of poetry. I keep up, as much as possible, with modern American poetry and I think that I'm very influenced by its rhythms. I like Walt Whitman, and I read all of Yeats a couple of months ago... I've read Galway Kinnell and Carolyn Kizer and Bob Hass, and some of the people who are sort of like poets but are prose writers like Grace Paley and Cynthia Ozick.
** 1980 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

## External links

* The loveliness of pigs: Galway Kinnell searches for the real beauty interview and poem “Daybreak” on the Christian Science Monitor
* Cortland Review interview and poem “The Fundamental Project of Technology”
* "Galway Kinnel reads 'Wait' " for the WGBH series, New Television Workshop
* " 'Since you asked..,' with Galway Kinnell for the WGBH series, New Television Workshop
* Academy of American Poets biography and links to interviews and poems
* Modern American Poetry short biography
# Gill Marcus

Gill Marcus (born on 10 August 1949) is a South African banker and politician who served as Governor of the South African Reserve Bank from 2009 to 2014. She was the first and only woman and the ninth person to hold the position.

## Quotes

* Let me say a few words about Ruth, the inspiration for this initiative and whose life comprised multiple facets. She was an activist, a revolutionary, a woman, a mother, a journalist, a writer and an academic. In addition to these attributes, she espoused and lived a set of values that continue to shape our country today and are deeply embedded in our Constitution and our aspirations. These values include non- racialism and non-sexism, a sense of justice and fairness that puts the interests of the poor and ordinary people ahead of self-interest; the commitment and courage to not only stand for what is right, but also to stand against what is wrong.
* It is Ruth's sense of justice that continues to inspire millions of South Africans today, even as we increasingly live in a world where injustice prevails and material benefit is idolised. Ruth's struggle and our Constitution should inspire all of us to continue the fight for a more just world, where the provision of high quality public education to all children must take the highest priority.
* Ruth fought for a world in which all people, irrespective of race or gender, had equal opportunities, a world where children from both rich and poor families would have access to the best education and the best work opportunities. Despite all of our problems and challenges as a society, we should remain steadfast in our commitment to build a South Africa in which opportunity is shared more equally, where hard work and effort trump the shadow of history.
* Ruth used her education and her enquiring mind, analytical thoroughness and personal courage as tools in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism, and in working for a world committed to fairness, justice and the advancement of people. She read voraciously. She studied all manner of topics. Ruth is credited with writing books on diverse topics ranging from Mozambican migrant workers to Libyan politics.
* Public education of the highest standard for all children is critical for democracy to flourish, and was integral to the liberation struggle, as lack of education is the greatest exclusion there can be. I fully support and endorse the establishment of a trust that funds scholarships to support young women from less advantaged backgrounds who show academic potential. Tonight I would like to add my voice to those of many others in congratulating the young women who have won scholarships to study at this wonderful educational institution. Jeppe Girls High, through the Ruth First Jeppe Trust, has set an example of how communities can come together to provide education for all, not just the privileged few. We need many more of these initiatives so that the ugly shadow of our apartheid history is eliminated from the lives and opportunities of our children.
# Angela Hawken

Angela Hawken (born in 1971 in Cape Town) is a professor of public policy and director of the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. Her research focuses primarily on drugs, crime, and corruption, and combines experimental and quantitative methods.

## Quotes

* I didn’t expect that the funding lines would be as slim as they were, and that they were cobbling together.
* Just the focus on trauma and healing … is not something you see much in the criminal justice system,’ said Mullins. However, this is seen now through TRCs. I think it really has become very central to communities as a place of safety, where you can go and get what you need .… I think they really are a shining example of the direction we should be moving.
* On Parole, Staying Free Means Staying Clean and Sober.
* You’ve got to make modifications based on what works for your culture.