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• It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
  -- Mary Henle...
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• The mere formulation of a problem is often far more essntial than its solution.
  To raise new problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and mark real advances....
• He was a how thinker, not an if thinker.
• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. -- Mary Webb
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• From now on, you'll stand out in life as an individual.
  Will I? Well, of course you will. All the other slaves will be black....
• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
  -- John W. Gardne...