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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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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current…
— Carl Ally
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The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the…
— Mark Tobey
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When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…
— Rajneesh
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The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create,…
— Rajneesh
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What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.
— Unknown Author
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true…
— Anthony Storr
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My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him…
— Robert Pattinson
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If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of…
— Richard Matheson
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I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
— Helmut Newton
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.…
— May Sarton
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I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found…
— Madonna Ciccone
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
— Edward Albee
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