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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 theory, what do…

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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the…
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we…
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough…
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets…
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense,…
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about…
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information…
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do…
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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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was… — Danny Hillis
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the… — Shirley Ann Grau
When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of… — Maya Angelou
Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in… — Marianne Williamson
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There… — Ferdinand Foch
Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. — Rob Brezsny
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all.… — Erin Hunter

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