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Much of present science rests on engineering tools, and as time goes on, engineering seems to involve more and more of the science part.... the two fields are growing together!... and now there is not enough time to allow us the leisure which comes from separating the two fields.

Richard Hamming
Transmission through space (typically signaling) is the same as transmission through time (storage).

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The standard process of organizing knowledge into departments, and subderpartments, and further breaking it up into separate courses, tends to conceal the homogeneity of knowledge, and at the same time to omit much which falls between the courses.

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If you expect to continue learning all your life, you will be teaching yourself much of the time. You must learn to learn, especially the difficult topic of mathematics.

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Theorems... record more complex patterns of thinking that once shown to be valid need not be repeated every time they are needed.

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Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

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This text is organized in the "spiral" for learning. A topic... is returned to again and again, each time higher up in the spiral. The first time around you may not be completely sure of what is going on, but on the repeated returns to the topic it should gradually become clear. This is necessary when the ideas are not simple but require a depth of understanding...

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