“I've always been intriqued by form.”
Interview Cordite Poetry Review 2004
“I've always been intriqued by form.”
Interview Cordite Poetry Review 2004
“I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”
As quoted in "The Seed of Apple's Innovation" in BusinessWeek (12 October 2004)
2000s
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”
In an interview in the New York Times (16 December 1957), cited in a footnote on page 32 of "Work, Society, and Culture" by Yves Reni Marie Simon, and also in a footnote (in German) on page 360 of "Vita activa oder Vom taetigen Leben" by Hannah Arend (1981)
Variants:
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/10/06/quentin_tarantino_kill_bill_volume1_interview.shtml
“I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.”
On moving to Hollywood at 14, after having earned her high school equivalency diploma, as quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)
Eric R. Danton (September 1, 2005) "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts", The Hartford Courant, The Hartford Courant Co., p. 5.
Science - The Endless Frontier (1945)
Context: The publicly and privately supported colleges, universities, and research institutes are the centers of basic research. They are the wellsprings of knowledge and understanding. As long as they are vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere.
“I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.”
Source: Sweet Seduction
“Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.”
"Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?," 2002