Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
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“Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 335.
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
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Donald H. Liles (1947) American engineer
Source: The Enterprise Engineering Discipline (1996), p. 1
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
On his character in The Colbert Report in an interview on Larry King Live (11 October 2007) http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/ <br class="br">Context: We worked very hard to keep him from being a jerk by keeping in mind he's well intentioned. Just poorly informed. He wants to do the right thing but has none of the tools to achieve it. Because he has no curiosity, he doesn't like to read and he won't listen anybody, except the voices in his head.
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Review of “Eyes of Amber”, by Joan D. Vinge (as anthologized in New Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/yet-more-sf-about-women-by-women, 2015 <br class="br">2010s <br class="br">Context: There’s a rule I used to call The Niven Rule but which I just now have decided to call the Rusting Bridges rule. It came to me after reading Niven’s “All The Bridges Rusting.” In this story, humans have by the early 21st century explored the Solar System and sent not just one but two crewed ships to Alpha Centauri … despite which the characters moan endlessly about the dire state of the space program. “Eyes of Amber” would be another example of the Rusting Bridges [Rule]: No matter how much the space program you actually have has achieved, whether it’s first contact with aliens or trips to nearby stars, it can never have achieved as much as the space programs you can imagine would have achieved in its place, given that imaginary programs aren’t limited by issues of politics, funding, or engineering.
“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer
“Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.”
Jack Vance book The Five Gold Bands
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
Extract from Suo Motto statement made in the Parliament, after India’s underground nuclear tests conducted on 11 May 1998.[Sujata K. Dass, Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Prime Minister of India, http://books.google.com/books?id=N8wnA7EtB0IC, 1 January 2004, Gyan Publishing House, 978-81-7835-277-0, 39]
