"What are the important problems of your field?" — Richard Hamming
"What are the important problems of your field?"
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Richard Hamming
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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 Field Quotes
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and…
— Drew Barrymore
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good…
— David Beckham
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The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched…
— Roberto Benigni
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
— Theodore Bikel
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
— Usain Bolt
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a…
— Edward de Bono
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day…
— Ian Botham
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