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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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So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is…
— Steve Tesich
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Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey?…
— Harrison Owen
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I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,…
— Howard Schultz
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If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be…
— Rajneesh
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If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?
— Doug Scott
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
— Elizabeth Moon
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one…
— Molly Ivins
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If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother?…
— Gina Barreca
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Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,'…
— Paul Desmond
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People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There…
— Zach Braff
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
— Alan Cumming
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There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist…
— Noam Chomsky
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