Meraj Mammadov

Quotes

A collection of quotes that sounded profound when I saved them.

“It’s through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”

Henri Poincaré

“About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.”

Edsger Dijkstra

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

John Steinbeck

“Do not solve a more general problem as an intermediate step.”

Vladimir Vapnik

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

Marilyn Strathern

“Belief is not the beginning of knowledge—it is the end.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe