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\u201cIf you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. [\u2026] Everyone thinks they think. If you don’t write down your thoughts, you are fooling yourself.\u201d \u2014 Leslie Lamport<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWriting is Nature’s way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.\u201d \u2014 Dick Guindon<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” \u2014 John von Neumann<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.\u201d \u2014\u2009Lazarus Long via Robert Heinlein<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDeprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad (twisted).\u201d – \u201cThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.\u201d \u2014 Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” \u2014 Albert Einstein<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.\u201d \u2014 Epictetus<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFar better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.\u201d \u2014 John Tukey<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFinding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough.\u201d \u2014 Ibn al-Haytham<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I cannot create, I do not understand.\u201d \u2014 Richard Feynman<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLearning can only take place throughout the attempt to solve a problem and therefore only takes place during activity\u201d \u2014 Kenneth J. Arrow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. [\u2026] Everyone thinks they think. If you don’t write down your thoughts, you are fooling yourself.\u201d \u2014 Leslie Lamport \u201cWriting is Nature’s way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.\u201d \u2014 Dick Guindon \u201cIf people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}