I don’t believe in writing anything that I don’t know about or haven’t researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. – Jackie Collins
The paradox of Steve Jobs’s career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers – he was famously dismissive of market research – yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted. – James Surowiecki
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research. – Joe Jamail
And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book. – Jon Krakauer
First, this isn’t about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library. – Jay Chiat
When times are good, there is budget available for increased research on secondary products or customers. – John Quelch
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. – Ike Skelton
I don’t often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it’s something specific like ‘Oz’ – which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with – I will. I read ‘The Hot House,’ about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison. – J. K. Simmons
The space station is the most unique laboratory we’ve ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals – the possibilities are nearly endless. – John Glenn
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. – Ike Skelton
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. – Isabel Allende
A translation needs to read convincingly. There’s no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text. – Jonathan Galassi
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. – Joan Didion
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. – Irving Kirsch
I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research. – Jack Dangermond
We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in ’98, and they covered the whole gamut. – John Glenn
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people. – John Maeda
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. – Joel Salatin
Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand preferences early on as these economies develop. – John Quelch
If you didn’t have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can’t copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way. – James Dyson
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research. – Jay Inslee
My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. – Joseph Stiglitz
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you’re writing about. It doesn’t encumber you, it makes you free. – A. S. Byatt
Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing. – Anthony Marra
Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want. – Bill Gates
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. – Arthur Erickson
At the height of Iraq’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core. – Barton Gellman
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. – A. S. Byatt