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Quotes

This blog will collect some excerpt and meaningful words or sentences most likely from books I read. Welcome to reply more in the message board ;)

  1. The writer has learned from much experience that this primary emphasis on the logic of the problem, rather than the mathematics, is necessary in the early stages. For modern students, the mathematics is the easy part; once a problem has been reduced to a definited mathematical exercise, most students can solve it effortlessly and extend it endlessly, without futher help from any book or teacher. It is in the conceptual matters(how to make the initial connection between the real-world problem and the abstract mathematics) that they are preplexed and unsure how to proceed. ————————— Probabilty Theory: The logic of science (Preface, Style of presentation)
  1. It takes more than promise to be an artist. Because the only way to be a true artist is to work day and night. Lose yourself in it completely. Do you have any idea how lonely that is. And yet, without great solitude, his serious work is impossible. They ugly truth is this. No one can help you. You have to do it on your own. Just as I did.
    —————— Genius, BBC 毕加索
  1. Technology changes rapidly, people and culture change slowly.
    ————— The DESIGN of EVERYDAY THINGS, DON NROMAN
  1. “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
    ―――――― Richard P. Feynman