Top 18 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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.

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.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

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.