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The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to read more
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be read more
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates read more
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.
