Anamaria Elek

“No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men’s failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The old adage tells us that “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,” but the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better, even if we actually expect it to be no different, or if it’s just as likely to be worse.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“Time trailed off into death and over this dead time, a silent snow was falling.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions