Quotes About Discovery

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.

Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.

Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when I was playing for a local youth team at Gern in Munich.

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read it as if you're reading it for the first time.

First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I gave up music entirely. And then at 13, I picked up the guitar, and after one and a half years, I started practicing intensively. I began playing in rock bands, and it was there that I discovered that the music I liked to write was always instrumental.

I've never been to Prague, and I've never been to Russia.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up... I am not that intelligent.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.