Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. ↗
We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine. ↗
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. ↗
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ↗
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. ↗
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗