Richard Hamming: You and Your Researchを読んで気になった部分を書き出しています。面倒くさいから英語のまま。

    
• So far as I know,    
  

  so
  far as I know, and I’ve been told by others, much of what I say applies
  to many fields. Outstanding work is characterized very much the same
  way in most fields[.]    

      

    

• One of the characteristics    
  

  One
  of the characteristics you see, and many people have it including great
  scientists, is that usually when they were young they had independent
  thoughts and had the courage to pursue them.    

      

    

• One of the characteristics    
  

  One
  of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once
  you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems,
  then you can. If you think you can’t, almost surely you are not going
  to.    

      

    

• What most people think are the best working conditions    
  

  What
  most people think are the best working conditions, are not. Very
  clearly they are not because people are often most productive when
  working conditions are bad.    

      

    

• What appears to be a fault    
  

  What
  appears to be a fault, often, by a change of viewpoint, turns out to be
  one of the greatest assets you can have.    

      

    

• The more you know, the more you learn    
  

  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 – it is very much
  like compound interest.    

      

    

• On this matter of drive    
  

  On
  this matter of drive Edison says, “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1%
  inspiration.” He may have been exaggerating, but the idea is that solid
  work, steadily applied, gets you surprisingly far. The steady
  application of effort with a little bit more work, intelligently
  applied is what does it. That’s the trouble; drive, misapplied, doesn’t
  get you anywhere. I’ve often wondered why so many of my good friends at
  Bell Labs who worked as hard or harder than I did, didn’t have so much
  to show for it. The misapplication of effort is a very serious matter.
  Just hard work is not enough – it must be applied sensibly.  
   

      

    

• If you do not work on an important problem,    
  

  If you do not work on an important problem, it’s unlikely you’ll do important work. It’s perfectly obvious.    

      

    

• If you want to do great work,    
  

  If you want to do great work, you clearly must work on important problems, and you should have an idea.    

      

    

• there is a pretty good correlation    
  

  there
  is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open
  and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work
  with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on
  slightly the wrong thing – not much, but enough that they miss
  fame.    

      

    

• by altering the problem, by looking at the thing differently    
  

  I
  suggest that by altering the problem, by looking at the thing
  differently, you can make a great deal of difference in your final
  productivity because you can either do it in such a fashion that people
  can indeed build on what you’ve done, or you can do it in such a
  fashion that the next person has to essentially duplicate again what
  you’ve done. It isn’t just a matter of the job, it’s the way you write
  the report, the way you write the paper, the whole attitude. It’s just
  as easy to do a broad, general job as one very special case. And it’s
  much more satisfying and rewarding!    

      

    

• one of the reasons is drive and commitment.    
  

  Well,
  one of the reasons is drive and commitment. The people who do great
  work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that
  those who have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day
  and go home and do other things and come back and work the next day.
  They don’t have the deep commitment that is apparently necessary for
  really first-class work. They turn out lots of good work, but we were
  talking, remember, about first-class work. There is a difference. Good
  people, very talented people, almost always turn out good work. We’re
  talking about the outstanding work, the type of work that gets the
  Nobel Prize and gets recognition.