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Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each…

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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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