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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a read more
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
