Zain Ikhlaq

“Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past.”
― Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

“I had incipient ulcers most of the years that I was at Bell Labs. I have since gone off to the Naval Postgraduate School and laid back somewhat, and now my health is much better. But if you want to be a great scientist you’re going to have to put up with stress. You can lead a nice life; you can be a nice guy or you can be a great scientist. But nice guys end last, is what Leo Durocher said. If you want to lead a nice happy life with a lot of recreation and everything else, you’ll lead a nice life.”
― Richard Hamming

“As Shakespeare teaches us, all heroes have flaws, some tragic, some conquered, and those we cast as villains can be complex. Even the best people, he wrote, are “molded out of faults.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk