"When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing."

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Source : "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

Doron Zeilberger

#Real Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.”
“I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.”
“Changes made by management today make no improvement.”
“Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.”
“Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.”
“I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.”

Source : "'Orange Is The New Black' star Uzo Aduba talks Crazy Eyes and Suzanne". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 27, 2013.
“I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.”
“It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.”

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