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Quotes of the Day 2010

An index of Quote of the Day during 2010.

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  1. 2010-08-27: Banker Vernon Hill on the trouble with sofware engineers (economist.com)
  2. 2010-08-25: Journalist Christopher Beam on the problem with academic tenure (slate.com)
  3. 2010-08-23: Facebooker Mark Zuckerberg on his interpretation of digital identity
  4. 2010-08-20: Fermilab physicist Bob Wilson on the benefits of basic science (cern.ch)
  5. 2010-08-04: Political activist Mario Savio rages against the machine (wikiquote.org)
  6. 2010-08-02: Information scientist Danah Boyd on not wanting to become an academic hermit (zephoria.org)
  7. 2010-07-30: Politician Donald Rumsfeld on knowledge (wikipedia.org)
  8. 2010-07-28: Naked Scientist Chris Smith on neurotic confidence (cam.ac.uk)
  9. 2010-07-26: Biochemist Darren Logan on why wikipedia is important in Science (wikipedia.org)
  10. 2010-07-23: Sex pistol John Lydon on La Dolce Vita in Italia (guardian.co.uk)
  11. 2010-07-21: Musician Fanny Waterman on why teaching is the greatest profession in the world (bbc.co.uk)
  12. 2010-07-19: Poet Charles Baudelaire on how to rule the universe when you don't even exist (wikiquote.org)
  13. 2010-07-16: Software engineer Poul-Henning Kamp on fifteen kilobytes of fame (freebsd.org)
  14. 2010-07-14: Wikileaker Julian Assange on “show me the data”! (guardian.co.uk)
  15. 2010-07-12: The Serene Scientists Serenity prayer and Uncertainty prayer (wucaonline.org)
  16. 2010-07-09: Musician Prince on why 'The Computer Network Formerly Known As The World Wide Web' is “completely over” (theregister.co.uk)
  17. 2010-07-07: Former Microsoftie Alan Cooper on computer literacy (cooper.com)
  18. 2010-07-05: Life scientist Jay Flatley on genome cost
  19. 2010-07-02: High-Energy Physicist Jon Butterworth on making it up as he goes along (wordpress.com)
  20. 2010-06-30: Biochemist Gregory Petsko on dog eat dogma (genomebiology.com)
  21. 2010-06-28: Design engineer Hywel Vaughan on I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here! (hywelvaughan.com)
  22. 2010-06-25: John Cleese on football vs. soccer (youtube.com)
  23. 2010-06-24: Doctor Mike Stratton on the DNA sequencing explosion (sanger.ac.uk)
  24. 2010-06-21: Mathematician Godfrey Hardy on research motives
  25. 2010-06-18: Comedian Rory McGrath on “true” stories (beardedtit.co.uk)
  26. 2010-06-17: Biologist Liping Zhao on human gut flora (nature.com)
  27. 2010-06-15: Googler Thad Hughes on long german neologisms (blogspot.com)
  28. 2010-06-14: Computer Scientist Gavin Brown on the trouble with computing in schools (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
  29. 2010-06-09: Googler Chris Messina on big data on the Web (factoryjoe.com)
  30. 2010-06-08: Astronomer Martin Rees on the symbiotic relationship between science and engineering (bbc.co.uk)
  31. 2010-06-07: Philosopher Roger Scruton on left-wing vs. right-wing politics (guardian.co.uk)
  32. 2010-06-04: Physicist Omar Almaini on the Astronomer's Periodic Table (periodicvideos.com)
  33. 2010-06-03: An anonymous editor on the tired old teaching vs. research debate (nature.com)
  34. 2010-06-02: Politician Michael Gove on the wisdom of teachers (bbc.co.uk)
  35. 2010-06-01: Footballer Alcides Ghiggia on silencing a stadium of 200,000 spectators (guardian.co.uk)
  36. 2010-05-28: Author Rick Cook on idiot-proof software engineering
  37. 2010-05-25: Author Bill Bryson on weird british pub names
  38. 2010-05-21: Journalist Tom Siegfried on lies, damned lies and mutant statistics (sciencenews.org)
  39. 2010-05-20: Computational biologist David Lipman on the paradox of wiki-science on the web (cell.com)
  40. 2010-05-19: Cartoonist and engineer Tim Hunkin on the trouble with sitting in front of a computer for too long (timhunkin.com)
  41. 2010-05-17: Management consultant Patrick Lencioni the trouble with teamwork
  42. 2010-05-14: Software engineer James Iry on the trouble with enterprise architecture (blogspot.com)
  43. 2010-05-13: Computer scientists John Warnock and Chuck Geschke on Adobe Systems Inc. vs. Apple Inc. (adobe.com)
  44. 2010-05-12: Engineer Scott Rosenberg wonders if we are all journalists now (wordyard.com)
  45. 2010-05-11: American president Barack Obama on the perils of technological distraction (guardian.co.uk)
  46. 2010-05-10: Freakonomists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner on the unifying theme of freakonomics
  47. 2010-05-07: Comedian Frank Skinner on why Science is tedious (timesonline.co.uk)
  48. 2010-05-06: Physicist Jonathan Shanklin on lessons from the ozone layer (nature.com)
  49. 2010-05-05: Author Stephen Fry on political tribalism (stephenfry.com)
  50. 2010-04-30: Engineer Marty Linder on making your computer secure (nature.com)
  51. 2010-04-29: Editor Philip Campbell on the trouble with PubMed (edge.org)
  52. 2010-04-28: Social scientist Leslie Chan on openly accessible research on the Web (soros.org)
  53. 2010-04-27: Publisher Michael Clarke on why the Web hasn't changed scientific publishing (sspnet.org)
  54. 2010-04-26: Biochemist Tim Hunt on swimming the seas of science (bbc.co.uk)
  55. 2010-04-23: Politician David Cameron on the twouble with twitter (absoluteradio.co.uk)
  56. 2010-04-22: Publisher Michael Mabe on luddite publishing (cambridge.org)
  57. 2010-04-21: Sophia Collins on getting teenagers involved with Science (2020science.org)
  58. 2010-04-20: A Googler on the importance of users (google.com)
  59. 2010-04-16: Computational Chemist Roger Sayle on the trouble with tautomers (springer.com)
  60. 2010-04-15: Author Margaret Atwood on why twitter is like having fairies at the bottom of your garden (nybooks.com)
  61. 2010-04-14: Biologist Arthur Lander on cultural icons in biology (biomedcentral.com)
  62. 2010-04-09: Impresario and musician Malcolm McLaren on beautiful ugliness (bbc.co.uk)
  63. 2010-04-08: Neuroscientist Philip Strange on arrogant, nerdy but mostly honest scientists (guardian.co.uk)
  64. 2010-04-07: Journalist Michael Brooks on pushover scientists and postdoc hell (guardian.co.uk)
  65. 2010-04-06: Journalist Erika Check Hayden on fundamental physics vs. biology (nature.com)
  66. 2010-04-01: Journalist Ben Goldacre on why bureaucracy is the lowest form of contempt (badscience.net)
  67. 2010-03-30: Biologist Victor Ambros on how ordinary people do extraordinary things (plosgenetics.org)
  68. 2010-03-26: Cartoonist and engineer Tim Hunkin on being a floater (timhunkin.com)
  69. 2010-03-25: Science funder Julia Lane on lies, damned lies and bibliometrics (nature.com)
  70. 2010-03-24: Author Milan Kundera on why everyone has a book in them
  71. 2010-03-22: Journalist Paul Bradshaw wonders why news organisations can't create decent web links (onlinejournalismblog.com)
  72. 2010-03-19: Davina McCall on the pleasure and pain of long-distance cycling (bbc.co.uk)
  73. 2010-03-17: Entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox on participating in online communities (bbc.co.uk)
  74. 2010-03-15: Googler Tim Bray on what's wrong with the iPhone (tbray.org)
  75. 2010-03-12: Mathematician Godfrey Hardy on the importance of selfish egocentric megalomaniacs in academia
  76. 2010-03-10: Zoologist George Monbiot on ignoring factual evidence (monbiot.com)
  77. 2010-03-09: Pharmacologist David Colquhoun on trust, truth and honesty in science (guardian.co.uk)
  78. 2010-03-08: Neural networker Pietro Perona on deaf and blind machines (acm.org)
  79. 2010-03-05: Systems biologist Lars Juhl Jensen on the trouble with computers (twitter.com)
  80. 2010-03-04: Politician and author Michael Foot on the paradox of reading vs. doing
  81. 2010-03-03: Social scientist Harry Collins on the importance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
  82. 2010-03-01: Inventor Clive Sinclair on why he doesn't use computers (guardian.co.uk)
  83. 2010-02-26: Animal scientist Temple Grandin on the essential role of autism (ted.com)
  84. 2010-02-24: Army officer Lawrence of Arabia on the trouble with dreamers
  85. 2010-02-22: Thelma Arnold on losing her anonymity on the internet (nytimes.com)
  86. 2010-02-19: Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner on pointless PowerPoint (ebi.ac.uk)
  87. 2010-02-18: Cryptographer Bruce Schneier on the eternal value of privacy (wired.com)
  88. 2010-02-17: Biochemist Eva Amsen on the trouble with diverse interests (nature.com)
  89. 2010-02-15: Journalist Simon Jenkins on power, corruption and lies in Science (guardian.co.uk)
  90. 2010-02-12: Biologist Kaj Sand-Jensen on how to turn a gifted writer into a dull scientist (wiley.com)
  91. 2010-02-11: Author Tara Brabazon on dodgy digital drugs (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
  92. 2010-02-10: Sociologist Scott Feld on lonely losers with no friends (jstor.org)
  93. 2010-02-08: Politician Clare Short on disappointing men (guardian.co.uk)
  94. 2010-02-05: Martha Harrison on the oxymoron of British cuisine
  95. 2010-02-04: Chemist Peter Atkins on the education of teaching students (nature.com)
  96. 2010-02-01: Roger Federer on Andy Murray and 74 years of grand slam disappointment (guardian.co.uk)
  97. 2010-01-29: A caveman on self-citation (biologists.org)
  98. 2010-01-28: Mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on science and human progress (bbc.co.uk)
  99. 2010-01-27: Computer Scientist Michel Beaudouin-Lafon on the publishing naivete of scientists (acm.org)
  100. 2010-01-26: Computer Scientist Sean Bechhofer on WordPress (knowledgeblog.org)
  101. 2010-01-25: Poet Robert Burns addressing the haggis
  102. 2010-01-19: Googler Peter Norvig on why those who can, do; and those who can't, write books (norvig.com)
  103. 2010-01-18: Biologist Michael Ashburner on why emotional science is a bad idea (cell.com)
  104. 2010-01-15: Journalist Jeffrey Steingarten on greek cuisine
  105. 2010-01-14: Entrepreneur Esther Dyson on the metabolic pathway of information (edge.org)
  106. 2010-01-13: Comedian Dave Lamb on addiction to 'Come Dine With Me' (digitalspy.co.uk)
  107. 2010-01-12: Vice chancellor Michael Arthur on bringing one of the world's greatest education systems to its knees (bbc.co.uk)
  108. 2010-01-11: Publisher Richard Baggaley on how bibliometrics kills risky 'big idea' books (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
  109. 2010-01-08: Apologetic mathematician Godfrey Hardy on majority opinions
  110. 2010-01-07: Computer Scientist Michael Stonebraker on standing on the toes of giants (acm.org)

This page was last updated on 2010-08-27 by Duncan Hull