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  • #1
    Srinivasa Ramanujan
    “An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.”
    Srinivasa Ramanujan

  • #2
    Steve Jobs
    “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #3
    Bill  Gates
    “If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
    Bill Gates

  • #4
    “He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”
    John McCarthy

  • #5
    Marvin Minsky
    “Papert's Principle: Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.”
    Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

  • #6
    Marvin Minsky
    “A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.”
    Marvin Minsky

  • #7
    Marvin Minsky
    “You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
    Marvin Minsky

  • #8
    Enrico Fermi
    “Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.”
    Enrico Fermi

  • #9
    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819”
    Pierre Simon Laplace

  • #10
    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.”
    Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace

  • #11
    Carl Friedrich Gauß
    “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
    Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • #12
    Carl Friedrich Gauß
    “I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
    Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • #13
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #14
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
    Richard Feynman

  • #15
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
    Edsger W. Dijkstra

  • #16
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
    Edsger W. Dijkstra

  • #17
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.”
    Edsger W. Dijkstra

  • #18
    John von Neumann
    “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
    John von Neumann

  • #19
    John von Neumann
    “Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
    John von Neumann

  • #20
    Linus Torvalds
    “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
    Linus Torvalds

  • #21
    Linus Torvalds
    “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
    Linus Torvalds

  • #22
    “How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”
    Larry Page

  • #23
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #24
    H.G. Wells
    “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #25
    René Descartes
    “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
    René Descartes

  • #26
    René Descartes
    “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
    René Descartes, Discourse on Method

  • #27
    René Descartes
    “At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.”
    Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

  • #28
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #29
    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #30
    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    Blaise Pascal, ʱԲé



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