“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related
“I don't know exactly what you guys want to do, but let me tell you why you should do it with fruit flies.”
Attributed to Wieschaus in Together to Fly http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/55/05Q60/index.xml?section=science
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