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"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
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Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
Sigh, I'm related to some people like that.
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

I like to stay with something too, I think this attitude is a disposition.

If I may share this with you. I remember we had a calculus problem on a test which I could not solve no matter how I approached it. That particular question stayed with me over the years and every now and then I’d make another attempt, sort of like at a crossword puzzle. Then 3 years after I graduated, in the summer while at the cottage, in a dream, the solution came to me! I was elated. But I have never used the equation for anything. (Calculating the volume of an irregular mass.)

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

That seems to fit the same thing I have been doing since Autumn of 1991. Lucy keeps putting down the football but when I run up to kick it I wind up on my butt as she had pulled it away yet again.
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That seems to fit the same thing I have been doing since Autumn of 1991. Lucy keeps putting down the football but when I run up to kick it I wind up on my butt as she had pulled it away yet again.
Hey, Chuck, maybe give golf a try?
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“I never try to remember what I can easily look up.” May not be the exact quote but close enough.
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Hey, Chuck, maybe give golf a try?
Just my luck. An alligator would probably eat it or a despicable constant golfer would steal my game and claim my score. And the onlookers would go along with it.
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Attributed to Einstein:
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."


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"If you can't simply explain a concept, you don't understand it well enough."
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