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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."
"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."
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"Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them."
"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."
"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."
"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process."
"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."
"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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