"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you."

-- Richard Hamming

#Errors Quotes #Tree Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us”
“All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Human Machine: Human Understanding”, p.44, 谷月社
“SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.”
“This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.”

Source : Senate vote to cut "Guantánamo Bay prisoner rights faces challenge" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
“The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.”
“All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.”
“As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.”

Source : "Peter David Interview". Jamie Coville blog, jamiecoville.com. January 2000.
“My favorite dish is tandoori chicken.”

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