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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.