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Richard Hamming has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
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He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the…
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If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
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Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we…
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough…
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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
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Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets…
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It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense,…
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Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about…
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information…
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One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do…
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Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured…
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It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.
— Gabe Paul
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You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into…
— Bob Dylan
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Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
— Napoleon Hill
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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is…
— Henry Ford
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I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.
— John F. Kerry
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Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles,…
— Napoleon Hill
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the…
— Steven Pressfield
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You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.
— Richard Hamming
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A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
— Jimmy Cannon
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A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no…
— Dan Gable
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People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they…
— Napoleon Hill
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