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“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are biochemical pattern-recognition machines and mathematics is nothing less than the distilled essence of who we are.”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: mathematics

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“We overestimate the damage done by procrastinating for a day and underestimate the damage done by procrastinating for several years.”
― Paul Graham

tags: procrastination, productivity, work, work-hard

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