I love Knuth's notion of thinking for the long term and independently of others. If something is important to you, there's a better chance that you'll do good work in it and that it actually is important in general.

If the fundamentals aren't strong, then you can't bu...

The sheer curiosity that Feynman and the clarity of understanding that Feynman has is so incredibly infectious. He loves learning and tinkering around with things purely for the sake of curiosity. What an inspirational person!

His insightful lectures on physics are also freely available online.

What a beautiful video. I'm a huge fan of Feynman. I can watch this video 100 times on repeat and not get tired of it. :)

I love how Arthur C. Clarke picked the giant squid, when everything else on his list was manmade. I guess the notion of an animal of that type must have really fascinated him :)

Wow, the ending of the Danny Hillis interview was quite profound - simulating the process of evolution within computers. Not only can this process run faster than human evolution since the lif...