I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

- Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

- Eric Allin Cornell

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

- Eric Allin Cornell

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 …

- Eric Allin Cornell

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By …

- Eric Allin Cornell

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 B…

- Eric Allin Cornell

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

- Eric Allin Cornell

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a l…

- Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

- Eric Allin Cornell