Richard Hamming Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Richard Hamming:

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
~Richard Hamming


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#475db4eb

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.
~Richard Hamming


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#25765c32

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.
~Richard Hamming


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#738aded3

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.
~Richard Hamming


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#d4025592

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
~Richard Hamming


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#1c8b90ae

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
~Richard Hamming


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#248a59ed

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.
~Richard Hamming


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-hamming-quotes/#25294bc9

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