Richard Hamming Quotes


Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.


Citations

Hamming, Richard W. "You and Your Research." Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 Mar. 1986.

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Richard Hamming
Richard Hamming
  • Born: February 11, 1915
  • Died: January 7, 1998
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Mathematician

Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), and the Hamming distance.