Things I like
Card and board games, roller coasters, non-Euclidean geometry, the ocean, fire, hiking, reading, and thinking.
Quotes I like
- “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard Feynman
- “I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain
- “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton
- “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.” — Emerson M. Pugh
- “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur Clarke
- “Every man carries the whole form of the human condition within him.” — Montaigne
- “The rules of go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play go.” — Edward Lasker
- “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.” — Nikola Tesla
- “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas Edison
- “The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.” — Elon Musk
- “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” — Richard Feynman
- “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” — Donald Knuth
- “Be so good they can't ignore you.” — Steve Martin
- “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” — Albert Einstein
- “Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.” — Montaigne
- “A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle.” — Rumi
- “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” — Albert Einstein
- “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” — Isaac Newton
- “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” — John von Neumann
- “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal
- “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” — Rumi
- “I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- “What the horse considers play, the monkey considers business.” — Unknown
- “If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.” — Mark Twain
- “If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk.” — Laura Joffe Numeroff