Tattoo on prefrontal cortex: “If what you’re working on isn’t important + isn’t leading to something important, why are you working on it?”
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To you (watch Hamming’s talk). My definitions are derived largely from David Deutsch’s philosophy.
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Linus Pauling's wife to him: "If that [DNA] was such an important problem, why didn't you work harder on it?"
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