"When you are famous it is hard to……" — Richard Hamming

"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you."

— Richard Hamming

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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Unknown Author
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn. — Jim Cornette
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.… — Marianne Williamson
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Unknown Author

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