Eric Laithwaite

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1945-03-30

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,841x

2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,326x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,510x

4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 26,080x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,455x

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Quotes

• “There are all kinds of people thinking about all kinds of things all of the time. That sentence sums up what I would describe as the ultimate deterrent to oppose the urge to invent. It is the feeling that it's all been done. Someone must have done this. I was born too late. All the good pickings are in the last century, and other such rubbish.”
• “I make most of my inventions when I'm talking to other people. ...I drag them from their interest into mine, and then they thank me when they leave, and I feel as if I should pay them a fee, because I feel as if I've used their brain to sort of reflect from.”
• “So there is the first message for all of you as potential inventors. Take your own ideas a little further before giving them up. Keep your experience like a sort of treasure house that you can draw on whenever you like. But never, never let it be your master. Be on the lookout for impossible things, the sort the Red Queen dreamed up before breakfast.”
• “Linear motors can be regarded... as the physical result of splitting and unrolling of rotary machines, and there are therefore at least as many types of linear motor as rotary...”
• “[T]here can be no electromagnetic machines before Faraday's discovery of the laws of induction in 1831. To this extent it is surprising that the earliest linear electric motor emerged as early as 1838, for it then took over a century for any linear machine to make a substantial commercial profit.”
• “It is not strange that the engineer fails to produce a unique solution, that his product is seen to be the result of 'art' more than science. ...The product becomes a matter of opinion... and joins the ranks of many other products such as literature, painting and sculpture, and... clothing. It has, in fact, its own history of Fashion.”

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