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A few quotes on learning, thinking and problem solving (link<\/a>).
\nbetterexplained.com<\/em><\/span><\/a>
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I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important.
\nThe urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.
\nDwight D. Eisenhower, (1890\u20131969)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Learning never exhausts the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonardo da Vinci (1452\u20131519)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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What makes you comfortable can ruin you, and only in a state of discomfort can you continually grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Eckstrom<\/a><\/p>\n

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If not now, then when?
\nIf not me, then who?<\/span>
\nMick Ebeling (at his TED talk<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you don’t like where you are,
\nmove.
\nYou’re not a tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
\n<\/span>David Viscott<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Where is the life we have lost in living?
\nWhere is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
\nWhere is the knowledge we have lost in information?
\n<\/span>Thomas Stearns Eliot <\/a>(1888 – 1965)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Don’t say the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
\n<\/span>Mark Twain<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Stability is a heavily loaded term with an unstable definition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big people talk about ideas,
\nAverage people talk about things,
\nSmall people talk about other people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If the tool you have is a hammer, make the problem look like a nail.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.
\n<\/span>Nietzsche<\/em><\/p>\n

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A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
\n<\/span>Jack Dempsey<\/em><\/p>\n

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Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
\n<\/span>Mary Lou Cook<\/em><\/p>\n

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You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
\n<\/span>Richard Koch<\/em><\/p>\n

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
\n<\/span>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/em><\/p>\n

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The biggest failure is the failure to try.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.<\/span>
\nRef.: Sardar, Z. and I. Abrams, Introducing chaos. 2004: Icon Books, p.71.<\/em><\/p>\n

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New ideas don’t win really. What happens is that the old scientists die and new ones come along with new ideas.<\/span>
\nMax Planck<\/em><\/p>\n

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Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
\nPractice is when everything works but no one knows why.
\nIn our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.<\/span>
\nFrom Internet<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.<\/span>
\nRonald Coase<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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New power is the development of mass participation<\/strong> and peer coordination<\/strong> to create change and shift outcomes.<\/span>
\nJeremy Heimans (at his TED talk<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/a>
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Naive Researcher:<\/strong> I should slice my research to publish more papers.
\nProfessor:<\/strong> We need to publish a strong and comprehensive paper, so that
\nit gets cited.
\nExperienced Distinguished Professor:<\/strong> We should make sure what we publish
\nis correct, because then it is going to last for ages.<\/span>
\nBahman Nasseroleslami<\/a>
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Cheap, Easy to Use, Accurate – pick any two, you cannot have all three.<\/span>
\nA post in ISB forum<\/a>
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.<\/span>
\nSeneca the Younger
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Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.<\/span>
\nGerzy Gregorek
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