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You and Your Research
Richard W. Hamming's lecture emphasizes the importance of pursuing significant research, setting high personal goals, and fostering confidence, creativity, and dedication to achieve excellence in one's career and contributions.
d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.netYou and Your Research - Richard Hamming (Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 1986)
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Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
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Excellence —> compounding
“Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.”
Richard Hamming - You and Your Research
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."