Paul Graham on Twitter: "If you buy this edition of A Mathematician's Apology and leave it on your desk, it will make you work harder. I don't know of another picture that could more appropriately be captioned with Hamming's Question.… https://t.co/5jThREnmNZ"

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 5 Jun 2019
  Hamming's Question: "What important problems are you working on?" http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html
  
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1. Ted Herman │‏ @tedherman 5 Jun 2019
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  this is on my shelf http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1950-56-05/S0002-9904-1950-09415-4/S0002-9904-1950-09415-4.pdf …
  
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1. alnfrngtn‏ @allenf32 5 Jun 2019
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  I leave this on my table. if they can reinvent the foundations of mathematics from scratch then I can sure as hell send a few good tweets.pic.twitter.com/gVVprzXXkI
  
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1. Silver_nz‏ @Silver_nz 5 Jun 2019
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  Ahh, those were the days, frontier days when people could believe that striving was leading to something meaningful, something lasting. And the metric for success wasn't eyeballs on a page. (P.s. I specifically engineered this post to be attention-grabbing and controversial)pic.twitter.com/25nxDUeSUN
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1. Austen Lamacraft‏ @AustenLamacraft 5 Jun 2019
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  I think a more appropriate question may be "What are you doing with your hands, Godfrey?"
  
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1. Hasan M‏ @Hasmanean 5 Jun 2019
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  I used to walk the shelves of the engineering library looking for interesting books for my “subway reading.” Hardy and Hamming were among my favourites, though that set me up for a lifelong dissatisfaction with the usual pedestrian problems one encounters in the corporate world.
  
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1. Bushra Farooqui ‏ @startuployalist 5 Jun 2019
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  Hadamard’s “Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field” would make an interesting addition as well:pic.twitter.com/eYiy67KjVJ
  
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1. Dana Jinaru‏ @DanaJinaru 5 Jun 2019
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  Somewhat unrelared, but sth you’d enjoy as a history nerd @paulg: foreword was written by CP Snow, whose Harvard Godkin Lecture about the rivalry btn Lindemann & Henry Tizard was amazing! It’s available as book but also audio by requesting from the good people @wgbharchives!
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