Quotes

• [I]f one accepts that interaction is the essence of social life, then…game theory provides solid microfoundations for the study of social structure and social change.
• The purpose of science is to find meaningful simplicity in the midst of disorderly complexity. - Herbert Simon.
• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. - Georg Cantor.
• We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us. - Quintilian.
• There is no royal road to [do science so easily] - Ilya.
• If you cannot solve the proposed problem do not let this failure afflict you too much but try to find consolation with some easier success, try to solve first some related problem; then you may find courage to attack your original problem again. Do not forget that human superiority consists in going around an obstacle that cannot be overcome directly, in devising some suitable auxiliary problem when the original one appears insoluble. - George Polya.
• Any idea in machine learning must be invented three times, once in signal processing, once in physics and once in the Soviet Union. - @typedfemale on Twitter. [Source].
• There are decades where nothing happens, then there are weeks where decades happen. - (unconfirmed) Lenin.
• You are never going to be who you think you want to be, until you think you are who you want to be. - Chuck Ainlay. [Source].
• If you set a standard, people live up to the standard. If you tell them about rules, people try to break rules. - Ben Recht.
• Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. - Steve Nadis, regarding a breakthrough on hash tables. [Source].
• An abstraction provides a higher-level vocabulary that shields the user from the underlying complexity, e.g. the gas pedal and accelerator.
• The secret to life satisfaction is agency maxxing. - Francois Chollet.
• The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. - Paul Dirac.
• All parallel operations can be performed sequentially, but not all sequential operations can be performed in parallel. This failure to parallelize is what we call "causality". (Holds true for general relativity, quantum information, Petri nets, monoidal category theory, etc.) - Jonathan Gorard [Source].
• Free and open source software isn't perfect, but at least we didn't have to build walled gardens to keep users locked in. - Me.
• Code is read much more often than it is written. - Guido van Rossum.
• When explaining a command, or language feature or hardware widget, first describe the problem it is designed to solve. - David Martin.
• If you can't write it down in English, you can't code it. - Peter Halpern.
• Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. - Eagleson' Law.