The opening quote is probably from Richard Hamming, not Richard Feyman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010

The opening quote is probably from Richard Hamming, not Richard Feyman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301089 (found through Google) https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html Although maybe they knew each other and both gave the same advice ... Actually that 2011 HN thread links to this paper, which attributes the same sentiment to Feynman, without an exact quote: https://people.tamu.edu/~huafei-yan//Rota/tenlesses.pdf https://people.tamu.edu/~huafei-yan//Rota/tenlesses.pdf