"Science is concerned with what is possible while……" — Richard Hamming
"Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives."
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33 Quotes by Richard Hamming
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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…
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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…
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the…
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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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It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In…
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Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible…
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in.…
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One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you…
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Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very…
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Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many…
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