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Quotes from The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn — Richard Hamming

1915–1998 United States

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Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Unforeseen technological inventions can completely upset the most careful predictions.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Either you will be a leader, or a follower, and my goal is for you to be a leader.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Perhaps thinking should be measured not by what you do but by how you do it.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

We constantly use the word "simplify", but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Transmission through space (typically signaling) is the same as transmission through time (storage).

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

We must not forget, in all the enthusiasm for computer simulations, occasionally we must look at Nature as She is.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it. Either one without the other is not of much use.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

All of engineering involves some creativity to cover the parts not known, and almost all of science includes some practical engineering to translate the abstractions into practice.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

No vision, not much of a future.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Often it is not physical limitations... but rather it is human made laws, habits, and organizational rules, regulations, personal egos, and inertia, which dominate the evolution of the future.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

The past is... much more uncertain—or even falsely reported—than is usually recognized.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

The feeling of having free will is deep in us and we are reluctant to give it up for ourselves—but we are often willing to deny it to others!

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

The standard process of organizing knowledge into departments, and subderpartments, and further breaking it up into separate courses, tends to conceal the homogeneity of knowledge, and at the same time to omit much which falls between the courses.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

The people at the bottom do not have the larger, global view, but at the top they do not have the local view of all the details, many of which can often be very important, so either extreme gets poor results.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

It is probable that the future will be more limited by the slow evolution of the human animal and the corresponding human laws, social institutions, and organizations than it will be by the rapid evolution of technology.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

The fundamentals of language are not understood to this day. ...Until we understand languages of communication involving humans as they are then it is unlikely many of our software problems will vanish.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

Attribution

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