Friday, August 13, 2010

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish!"

This quote by the amazing physicist Richard Feynman, who also won the 1965 Nobel Prize, got me all hooked-up on a soon-to-be one of my most favorite books: "What do you care what other people think?". Most embarrassingly, I had not heard of him up-until yesterday, when I was reading up on a topic in real analysis posted on some math forum!

Now, it's sort of like an autobiography I can relate to in an interesting way! it's also kinda like when your dad tells random, interesting stories of back when he was young, or rather like when a good friend's sharing their past in a fun way, as it doesn't have the tone of an elderly ... Anyways, I think it's a must-read and I am NOT going to spoil it.

It can be easily downloaded off gigapedia, but if you have access to a hard-copy (i.e. you're not currently in some doomed country like where I am right now, where access to almost anything is impossible), I would definitely recommend you purchase the book. I'm personally planning to purchase it as soon as I get a chance. I really only downloaded it for a sneak-preview and ended-up reading about half of it already! I hope I can find it at Schiphol, so I get to read it on my way back, but I doubt this be the kinda book one would be able to find at an airport bookstore.

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