Learning Quotes

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer,... ...

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for... ...

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Learn from your unhappy customers.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.