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Quotes from Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth — Norbert Wiener

1894–1964 United States

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A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norbert Wiener (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.