Physicist
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Braga: Engineers focus on practical problem solving unlike pure mathematicians and physicists
“Engineers are the guys who want to solve the problems that people have, right? And then so they often look around in a university, you kind of sense that difference that they're pure mathematicians, they're physicists. And then the engineers, the guys who real…”
Marc Andreessen's first college job was writing code for physicists
“My job in college, my first job in college was actually to write computer code for physicists who hated computers.”
Susskind: The anthropic principle is widely hated among physicists
“That's called the anthropic principle, and it's a widely hated idea among physicists.”
Susskind: Physicists must discover everything and leave preventing misuse to politicians
“It's not, I don't believe it's the physicist's job to decide what should and shouldn't be discovered. From a physicist's point of view, everything should be discovered if possible. It is the job of politicians and other people of that ilk to make sure that thi…”