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“We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.”
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“Stamina and determination along with creativity are needed in overcoming seemingly impossible difficulties in research and other challenges in life.”
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
“From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“Research is about conducting experiments, accepting and even enjoying failures, but going on and on, following a theory garnered from observing the science. Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.”
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
“Learning by trial and error, or experimentation, can be exciting, the lessons learned deeply engrained. Learning by failure is a remarkably good way of gaining knowledge. Failure is to be welcomed rather than avoided. It is a part of learning. It should not be feared by the engineer or scientist or indeed by anyone else.”
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
NonFiction Pulitzers
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A group to read the General Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography, and History Books that won or were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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