Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
"If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
many people, including this person, carry the attitudes and habits they pick up at their first job around for quite a long time
Culture matters
Kevin Kelly
