January 2012
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Always produce” is also a heuristic for finding the work you love. If you...
– Paul Graham
October 2011
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We’re mathematicians. We don’t program.
– Anonymous mathematician
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Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life
– Nietzsche (via n9nlinear)
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Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
– Napoleon Hill
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
– Edwin Land
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a...
– George Bernard Shaw
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Failure is just another part of the culture of innovation. Accept it and become...
– Albert Yu
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to...
– Thank you for everything, DMR
A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air. His...
It’s more fun to be a pirate than join to the navy.
– Steve Jobs
With great power comes great responsibility.
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
– Bill Gates
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
– Bill Gates
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Life is not fair — get used to it!
– Bill Gates
July 2011
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow...
– Niels Bohr
June 2011
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong
at the broken places.
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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Author unknown
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
– Anonymous, popularized by Mark Twain
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The mathematician’s main reason for existence is to solve problems
– Paul Halmos - 1980
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… mathematics: she gives life to our discoveries; she awakens the mind and...
– Proclus
May 2011
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February 2011
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein.
December 2010
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October 2010
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[Mathematics is] “a language that can neither be read nor
understood without...
– Emblems of Mind, Edward Rothstein, Harper Perennial, 1996, page 15
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...
– Douglas Adams
July 2010
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June 2010
22 posts
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The most practical solution is a good theory.
– Albert Einstein
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I see it, but I don’t believe it.
– Cantor to Dedekind 29 June 1877
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So, this is engineering, huh? Engineering, where the noble semi-skilled laborers...
– Dr. Sheldon Cooper -
Happy Day Engineers
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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make...
– S. Grudder
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If there is a God, he’s a great mathematician.
– Paul Dirac
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
– Paul Erdos
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God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
– Leopold Kronecker
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
– Henri Poincare
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
– Albert Einstein
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If you can’t solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can...
– George Polya