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All Quotes by author - Eric Allin Cornell
" After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. "
Semester
Out
Infatuation
" As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. "
Work
Life
Study
" Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. "
Language
Enough
Speed
" Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. "
Avoid
Reason
Realize
" I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. "
Remember
Space
Building
" It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. "
Us
Marry
Wife
" I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. "
California
I Was Born
Born
" I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. "
Partly
Modern
Old-Fashioned
" Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. "
School
Year
Mother
" Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. "
Most
Trouble
Teachers
" My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. "
MIT
High School
Father
" My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. "
Work
Habit
End
" My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. "
Chess
Year
School
" My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. "
School
Attention
Facts
" Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. "
More
Studying
China
" The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. "
Years
American
Culture
" The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. "
Spark
Different
Me
" There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. "
Physics
Days
Experiments
" Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. "
Learning
Language
Travel
" With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. "
Still
Left
Every
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