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Mathematician and computer scientist; Turing Award, 1968
I have now come down to a topic which is very distasteful; it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. 'Selling' to a scientist is an awkward thing to do.
Recorded · Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar (transcription hosted by the University of Virginia Department of Computer Science) · 1986
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
To get the most out of the world around you you’ve got to really look hard. Most people out walking in the woods don’t really look. They just glance around. They scan.
Recorded · The National · 2012
Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1990; Senior Minister 1990–2004; Minister Mentor 2004–2011
Having found suitable men, our next problem was to keep them and nurture them until they were ready.
Recorded · Petir (People's Action Party), reproducing the speech in full · 1996
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
What is rewarding about the priesthood is, one, that you have an incredible privilege of being privy to some of the most extraordinary things about people.
Recorded · American Academy of Achievement · 2004
French football manager; Arsenal 1996–2018; FIFA Chief of Global Football Development
A good coach is somebody who has a clear concept of what they want and what they love in the game, is capable of expressing it in an understandable way, and is able to obtain it on the…
Recorded · FIFA Training Centre · 2023
Pharmaceutical chemist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2015
Most pharmaceutical workshops were shut down during the great cultural revolution. Without manufacturing support, we had to extract herbs ourselves using household vats etc.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2015
Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
I’d been introduced to Freud through all this because I couldn’t understand why is it so difficult to be brave.
Recorded · American Academy of Achievement · 2009
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
One of the historians here in Williamsburg talked about War and Peace. I had to read that in school. It was an inspiring, lengthy treatise. I read it twice. It taught me a lot about life.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1995
39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
When I was a young boy, [my schoolteacher Julia Coleman] introduced me to Leo Tolstoy's novel, "War and Peace." She interpreted that powerful narrative as a reminder that the simple human…
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2002
39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
I thought often during my years in the White House of an admonition that we received in our small school in Plains, Georgia, from a beloved teacher, Miss Julia Coleman.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2002
War correspondent and author; Pulitzer Prize winner, 1989
One of my editors once said to me, “If you get invited to the White House, take your notebook with you,” and he meant it.
Recorded · American Academy of Achievement · 2007
President of Liberia, 2006–2018
Mine has been a long journey, a lifetime journey to Oslo.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2011
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