Terence Tao famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.
-- Terence Tao

#Doe #Process #Gifted
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.
-- Terence Tao

#Math #Trying #Technique
Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.
-- Terence Tao

#Advice #Should
Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.
-- Terence Tao

#Volume #Grows
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.
-- Terence Tao

#Numbers #Space #Calling
Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
-- Terence Tao

#Negative #Surprise #Stranger
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.
-- Terence Tao

#Taste #Problem #Should

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
When one door opens, so does another one.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

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