Learning for its own sake means exactly what it says: learning is the only reason that you’re doing it, because learning is what matters.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Learning for its own sake means exactly what it says: learning is the only reason that you’re doing it, because learning is what matters.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin – the Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era – died at the age of 37, on this day – January 29th in in 1837 in Saint Petersburg.
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We are in an age of politics when every victory is Pyrrhic, because to gain office is to become the very thing—the establishment, the incumbent—that a part of your citizenry will inevitably want to replace. Democrats have been temporarily banished to the wilderness by a counterrevolution, but if the trends of the 21st century hold, then the very anti-incumbent mechanisms that brought them defeat this year will eventually bring them back to power.
~ Derek Thompson
via How Donald Trump Won Everywhere
published by The Atlantic
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished.
~ Claude Shannon
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