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Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my lifes work was probably a mistake. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the schools DEC mainframe in the language Basic. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
I didnt really enjoy the assembling the model kits very much, and usually I couldnt be bothered to paint the thing, or even to stick on the decals. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
I really enjoyed this experience, and it was these jobs, more than anything else, that persuaded me to pursue a career in scientific research. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Some of my classes in high school were pretty interesting and I benefited from having several very intelligent and inspiring teachers. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
The family, including my younger brother and sister, accompanied my father on sabbatical years to Berkeley, California and Lisbon, Portugal. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that dont involve the use of a laser. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
There were hints, in those days, that the neutrino might have a rest mass as large as ten eV, a value of cosmological significance. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
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