Richard Hamming Quotes

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

I hate competition.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other.

There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

In science your competitors are your colleagues.

We are rivals but are not necessarily on opposite sides of the table.

I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.

That's one of the things I like about our business: our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can.

We always want to see each other do well. And I think we all want to win. As competitive as you are, you always want to win.

Competition is right, but it has to be healthy.

We are an industry, and we are all in this together and can't survive without each other. I feel it is high time we realise that. If we go against each other, or if we get happiness from other people's fall, then there is no way we will move ahead.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

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!

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.