Quotes on Mighty Oaks

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.