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On Learning and Thinking for Ourselves:


Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso


From Disney's Lion King; when Rafikki meets the now grown Simba, he smacks Simba on the head with a stick. Simba, after shaking it off says, "What'd you do that for". Rafikki replies, " Doesn't matter - it was in the past!". Rafikki swings again. Simba ducks. Rafikki says, "...but you learned."


Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau


There is nothing so practical as a good theory - Kurt Lewin


We have no money. Now we must think. - George Washington (at Valley Forge)


Best Practice: ... finding someone who looks like they know where they're going, and following them. - Robert Newbold


Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. - W. R. Inge


Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Barry LePatner


I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman


Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas H. Huxley
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard


My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all. - Stephen Hawking


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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Barry LePatner

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