"There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there……" — Richard Hamming
"There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think."
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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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Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one…
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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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More Cannot Hear Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
— Thomas Beecham
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation?…
— Rajneesh
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I…
— Norman Mailer
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of…
— Joy Harjo
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
— William Butler Yeats
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in…
— William Shakespeare
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him…
— William Gurnall
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