TITLE: Choice Passages from Recent Reads
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 17, 2015 3:32 PM
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Eric Schmidt, in
an interview
for Blitzscaling:
Every great project has started with a graduate student and
an assistant professor looking for tenure.
~~~~~
Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, quoted in
an article about John Horton Conway:
I'm not sure that I can describe how charisma happens.
It just is or isn't. And with most mathematicians it
markedly isn't.
~~~~~
Alan Jacobs, in his
79 Theses on Technology For Disputation,
as recorded by Chad Wellmon:
Everyone should sometimes write by hand, to recall what
it's like to have second thoughts before the first ones
are completely recorded.
~~~~~
Garrison Keillor, in his novel "Love Me":
We puritans overdramatize these things. We want there to
be lions stalking us, whereas it's only some old coyote.
Not utter degradation; just poor choices.
Truth, resignation, and freedom, all in one brief passage. I also
like this one:
The slow rate of learning is discouraging to the older man,
but thank God for illumination at whatever hour.
Yes, indeed.
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