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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
― Elon Musk

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“Prof is right; more than three people can’t decide anything.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress