Thursday, December 27, 2012

Why

I was thinking just now of the qualities I value most. Ingenuity, tenacity, patience came to mind first. Then I realised that these are all things which cannot be exercised in a vacuum: they need a problem to strive against. It's like a wall you can push off, or like swimming in water rather than air. Climbing is resistance. A problem which demonstrates a theorem.

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