Richard Hamming Quotes

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.