Closing Words for Summer Service of 22 August 2004

From G. H. Hardy:

"The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has
been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is
this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to
add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in 
degree only, not in kind, from that of the creations of the great
mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who
have left some kind of memorial behind them."

From Carolyn Porco:

"I enjoy my career because it allows me to live my life on a plane 
different than most people do.  My mental life is spent elsewhere -- it's
spent in the outer solar system.  I can think of no more enjoyable life
to spend than that."

From Tim Berners-Lee:

"I was very lucky, in working at CERN, to be in an environment that
Unitarian Universalists and physicists equally appreciate: one of
mutual respect, and of building something very great through
collective effort that was well beyond the means of any one person -
without a huge bureaucratic regime. The environment was complex and
rich; any two people could get together and exchange views, and even
end up working together somehow. This system produced a weird and
wonderful machine, which needed care to maintain, but could take
advantage of the ingenuity, inspiration and intuition of individuals
in a special way.  That, from the start, has been my goal for the World
Wide Web."