Matt O'Donnell
@modonnell
On a never-ending search for interesting things
Matt O'Donnell
@modonnell
On a never-ending search for interesting things
It’s Good
It Can Be Better
Eventually it Will Be Good Enough
Next Time Will Be Even Better
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."