"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."

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David Hilbert

#Science Quotes #Mind Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Maybe I'm a supernatural retard.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.52, St. Martin's Griffin
“Beneath every history, another history.”

Source : Hilary Mantel (2013). “Hilary Mantel Collection: Six of Her Best Novels”, p.78, HarperCollins UK
“I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.”
“There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.”
“The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“What makes big ***** and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.”
“In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.”

Source : "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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