Experience of a logician-engineer

Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. So be a hero and do what has to be done, when it needs to be done, fear not the consequences.

When you avoid important problems, you will not do important work. When you only support projects where there is no risk and no chance of mistakes, you will in the end support only mediocrity.

What is, was, or has been is not necessarily desirable. The final test of a theory is its capacity to solve problems. Know that the emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women, and song.

by Limsoon Wong (with apologies to George Dantzig, Freeman Dyson, Richard Hamming, Sidney Hook, and Omer Washington.)