"Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men."

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Source : Gerald M. Weinberg (2001). “An Introduction to General Systems Thinking”, Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated

Gerald Weinberg

#Learning Quotes #Men Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.”
“I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.”
“A bully's universe: US foreign policy operates upon the premise that American men and matÃ©riel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world.”
“I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.”
“When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.”
“Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.”
“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.”
“Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.”

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