Terence Tao quotes
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“Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.”
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“... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.”
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“Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.”
-- Terence TaoSource : Interview with Kareem Carr, blogs.ams.org. October 4, 2009.
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“Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.”
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“At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.”
-- Terence TaoSource : Terence Tao (2012). “Topics in Random Matrix Theory”, p.2, American Mathematical Soc.
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“Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.”
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“Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.”
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“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
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“When one door opens, so does another one.”
Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios
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“I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.”
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“Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.”
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Source : Negro Digest, Aug. 1964
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