"I never learned how to tie my shoes, and I was mocked for that. I still don't know how to."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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“Thatâ€™s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how weâ€™ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”
“It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.”
“Kim Il Sung not only presided over the birth of a new nation in an old land, he was inextricably bound to the fate of North Korea. Perhaps to a greater degree than any other modern political leader, he may be seen as the full embodiment of the state. Indeed, Kim was more integral to state and society in North Korea than Stalin in the Soviet Union, or Mao in China.”
“The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.”
“If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity.”
“Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package."”

Source : Robert Kanigel (2016). “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”, p.349, Simon and Schuster
“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.”

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