"If you don't work on important problems, it's……" — Richard Hamming

"If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work."

— Richard Hamming

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33 Quotes by Richard Hamming

Richard Hamming has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation…
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the…
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…
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In…
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible…
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in.…
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you…
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very…
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many…

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More Hard Work Quotes

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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm… — Erykah Badu
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she… — Amy Adams
I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard… — Tammy Baldwin
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck… — Lucille Ball
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards… — John Banville
I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard… — Victoria Beckham
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. — Dirk Benedict

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