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Wastebasket Quotes by Norbert Wiener
- The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a…
- A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,…
More Wastebasket Quotes
- A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
- Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. — Erma Bombeck
- Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions. — Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
- When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded,… — Elbert Hubbard
- A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in… — William Stafford
- Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner
- The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
- If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket. — Karl Lagerfeld
- The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener
- I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway
- I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. — Imogen Cunningham