Alvin Leung Quotes

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

My parents are both scientists. They like order.

Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

Go with the science!.