Hasso Plattner Quotes

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Research is creating new knowledge.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Children are just little scientists.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Write about what you want to know.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.