Quote of the Day
It is a profoundly
erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we
are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by
extending the number of important operations which we can perform without
thinking about them.
An Introduction to Mathematics.
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)