Publication Quotes

• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Transition

  "Bill Gates: The future according to the world's richest man". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. March 20, 2006.

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• Academic success depends on research and publications.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Success, Congratulations, Research

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Kissing, Thinking, First Kiss

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #62 (B&S), 1798.

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• The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Men, Paper

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• I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Looks, Lasts

  Author Q&A by Penguin Random House, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Dollars, Stories

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• Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Art, Book, Science

  "Electronics" by P. Arun, (p. 310), 2005.

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• But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Chemistry, Chemical Reactions, Chemicals

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific

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• [The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.

  Joseph Priestley

  Air, House, Firsts

  "Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley". Book by John Towill Rutt., 1831.

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• My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

  Douglass North

  Relationship, Analysis, Banking

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• This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Twenties, Suggestions

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• I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

  Ken Burns

  New York, Reading, Jazz

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• This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

  Paul Kane

  Encouragement, Home, Flames

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• Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

  Vannevar Bush

  Real, Science, Use

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Years, Paper

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• The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Anyone who thought he had a bright idea rushed out to try it out on a colleague. Groups of two or more could be seen every day in offices, before blackboards or even in corridors, arguing vehemently about these 'brain storms.' It is doubtful whether any paper ever emerged for publication that had not run the gauntlet of such criticism. The whole department thus became far greater than the sum of its individual members.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Running, Science, Ideas

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• Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Paper, Fraud

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'

  Edward Forbes

  Science, Self, Names

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• You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Science, Thinking

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• Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Saws, Vengeance

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Gossip, East

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Long Ago, Two

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• Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.

  Ernest Nagel

  Nature, Real, Science

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• By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Rejection, Firsts, Collecting

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