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Human

We tend to give too much credit to whichever clever person is standing nearby at the right moment -- Matt Ridley
It takes a wise man to know whether he has found a ROPE or LOST A MULE. - Anonymous
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. - Stephen Hawking (NYT)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle

Self-regulation

Nobody kicks the dead dog -- Dale Carnegie
No matter how great the talent or efforts, something just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. - Warren Buffet
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time. - Charlie Munger
Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life. - Charlie Munger
If you're lazy and unreliable, it doesn't matter what you're good at. - Charlie Munger
Don't drift into self-pity because it doesn't solve any problems. - Charlie Munger
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ― Marie Curie
My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every three months. -- Donald Knuth

Life

Life has terrible and unfair blows. Utilize them in a constructive fashion. - Charlie Munger
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problem solving

The Feynman Algorithm: Write down the problem. Think real hard. Write down the solution.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Understanding

You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. ... I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. - Feynman
Real knowledge is knowing that you don't know anything. - Charlie Munger
Keep it simple. - Charlie Munger
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. -- Benjamin Franklin

Attitude

Biology

I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level. -- Donald Knuth

Science

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. -- Donald Knuth
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it. -- Donald Knuth
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. -- Paul Dirac
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac
The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of simple extrapolation of the properties of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new bevaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other -- P. W. Anderson
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking. -- Carl Sagan

Defect

People are like crystals. It is the defects in them that make them interesting. - Sir F.Charles Frank

Technology

Statistics

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

Administration

Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill - Southwest
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. - Galileo
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every public servant should be demoted to the immediately lower rank ... because they were advanced until they became incompetent. -- Ortega y Gasset

Scientist

If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. -- Paul Dirac

Computation

The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation. -- Paul Dirac

Writing

법정, "생각만으로 글이 써지는 건 아니다. 마음에 드는 필기구와 종이의 형태와 질, 기분이 하나가 될 때 글이 된다. 만년필이 없으니 글 쓸 기분 안 나네."

Simulations and Experiments