The World Motivation
A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.
“A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.”
A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.
I took some time... to kind of check in with myself, sit in silence, and do all the things that we're supposed to do in order to grow. During that time, I came up with little criteria like 'This is how I will choose jobs. Tier 1 is, if it hits three out of these four, then I'm going to make an automatic yes.'