Richard Hamming on Time
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Richard Hamming, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Richard Hamming, entry #122467: "It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past."
Attributed to Richard Hamming, entry #11281: "Transmission through space is the same as transmission through time ."
6 Quotes by Richard Hamming on Time
"It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past."
"Transmission through space is the same as transmission through time ."
"We are mainly interested in the processes... not... in presenting mathematics in its most abstract form. ...we will often begin with concrete forms and then exhibit the process of abstraction."
"Much of present science rests on engineering tools, and as time goes on, engineering seems to involve more and more of the science part. ...the two fields are growing together! ...and now there is not enough time to allow us the leisure which comes from separating the two fields."
"In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a career with a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while no vision will get you only the distance √n. ...the accuracy of the vision matters less than you suppose, getting anywhere is better than drifting, there are potentially many paths to greatness for you... No vision, not much of a future."
"I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important."