Classic Feynman: "with one exception, fall madly in love!"
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I'm pretty sure he was just quoting the letter.
"You Don't Understand Ordinary People" - Feynman Gives Advice to Wolfram
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#22Classic Feynman: "with one exception, fall madly in love!"
Someone once said that madness was necessary for creating. Does anybody know who it was? Can't find it.
It's interesting because Wolfram quotes Feynman as saying:
"Peace of mind is the most important prerequisite for creative work."
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#24I wonder if we will ever get to read such transcripts in this age of private emails and ephemeral conversations.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wolfram learned to like it in the process..
Citation, please.
The impression I got from this talk: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/ycombinato... is that he became a businessman reluctantly.
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#26Classic Feynman: "with one exception, fall madly in love!"
Why limit yourself to falling in love only with non-technical people? :)
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#28Classic Feynman: "with one exception, fall madly in love!"
Why limit yourself to falling in love only with non-technical people? :)
"...as little contact with non-technical people, with one exception..."
Meaning: when it comes to love, don't shy away from people just because they're non-technical.
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#29I wonder if we will ever get to read such transcripts in this age of private emails and ephemeral conversations.
For every person who has gchat set to never document anything, there's another neurotic packrat like my brother who saves all of his chat history so he can go back and show people how prior conversations went whenever there's a disagreement over what was said.
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#30I wonder if we will ever get to read such transcripts in this age of private emails and ephemeral conversations.
Well, Gmail will archive most of those :P (or Hotmail, Yahoo or your webmail provider of choice).