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“I think it’s easy to think of people who are extremely rational as robotic,” he said, “but I really don’t think that applies to Sam. He was a really rare combination of hyper-rational and extremely kind.”
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
(1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Some of the engineers closest to West suspected that if he weren’t given a crisis to deal with once in a while, he would create one. To them he seemed so confident and happy in an emergency.
Tracy Kidder • The Soul of A New Machine
Alors que Léonard approche les 50 ans, le fait d’habiter de nouveau à Florence, où sa famille et lui-même ont une notoriété certaine, lui permet de vivre confortablement et d’être un personnage hors norme. Plutôt que de se conformer aux usages, il met un point d’honneur à être différent ; il s’habille et se comporte comme un dandy. Il inventorie da
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Léonard de Vinci: La biographie (QUANTO) (French Edition)
Halstead is a sophisticated, "rational" businessman. He knows that the Corporal's strong and unrelenting penny-saving is essential to the survival of the organization in "today's highly competitive business world." What he doesn't understand is that the business is being strangled by his own efforts to maintain profits by cuttin
... See moreGerald Weinberg • The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully (Consulting Secrets Book 1)
I owed my friendship with Hardy to having wasted a disproportionate amount of my youth on cricket. I don’t know what the moral is. But it was a major piece of luck for me. This was intellectually the most valuable friendship of my life. His mind, as I have just mentioned, was brilliant and concentrated: so much so that by his side anyone else’s see
... See moreG. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
His mechanical engineering work included close to a hundred devices for moving and diverting water.
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
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