#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'm at that age now where if I have to learn something new, I have to forget something else to make room in my brain."
#OverheardAtCarnegie
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Did you vibe code too close to the Sun?"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'm pretty sure Bob has a metronome in his brain."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “This is why we’re really good—because we don’t agree with each other at all, but we still work together.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “We’d like to acknowledge that Verizon significantly detracted from this research.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "This isn't Canada. This is a swamp. It's not supposed to be this cold!"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "The Rumor Mill is a dangerous place."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “To zeroth order, the Solar System is the Sun and some dust. To first order, the Solar System is the Sun, Jupiter, and some dust.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "You know it's a busy day when you can't even find time to pee."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Here's some unsolicited wine advice."
#OverheardAtCarnegie:
“Well, to make a long story short—“
“—It’s too late for that.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “At the ALS [Advanced Light Source], there was a room full of junk food. We called it the AFS: the Advanced Food Source.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "But for a few kinetic barriers, you and I should be bursting into flame."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Never let your instruments think you're afraid of them."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "A payload mass of 42.5 kilograms means a launchpad mass of 15.5 metric tons. That's the tyranny of the rocket equation."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Any questions, worries, concerns, limericks, haikus?”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Those who look through microscopes too rarely talk to people who look through telescopes.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "What a time to be a scientist. What a time to be anything other than a billionaire."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “He wrote his thesis in Word?!?!”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “You need biologists. Astrobiology without the bio is just astrology.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I kid you not: in the appendix of one of my papers, I have the quadratic formula, and when I wrote it, I thought, this is such a beautiful moment."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “If you think you know everything, then you really don’t know anything.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I feel like I need a spicy new font for every presentation.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “It’s good to know that if there are Oreos on Mars, we’d be able to identify them.”