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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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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they… — Gerald Vann
The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value — Marmaduke Pickthall
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if… — Abraham Lincoln
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — Ludwig von Mises
The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime… — Pope Francis
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns.… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there… — Chinua Achebe

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