On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.

Christians need to identify the thief of their peace joy and fulfillment in life and especially in their most important relationship marriage.

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

To me breakfast is my most important meal. Its often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal milk and fruit. Its the fuel you use to hopefully do your best so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.