读 you and your research

诺贝尔奖得主 Richard Hamming 演讲稿 "You and your research"。
原文 link: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

读过好几次了。书读常新。知识跟经验的东西，本来就没有对的，只有你需要的。这次刚好发现几点需要的。

The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind

一个关闭办公室门的人很可能就是一个不爱交流的人，一个不爱和他人交流的人很可能就是一个思想封闭的人。思想封闭，与世隔绝，就会容易做出错误的判断。

工作中也要注意细节。Richard 抓住这么一个细节就把人给批判了一番。

Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can.

注意，是 "important"。结合背景就知道是 Nobel Prize 级别的。

Well, one of the reasons is drive and commitment. The people who do great work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that those who have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day and go home and do other things and come back and work the next day. They don't have the deep commitment that is apparently necessary for really first-class work. They turn out lots of good work, but we were talking, remember, about first-class work. There is a difference.

真的。

The second thing is, I think, the problem of personality defects. Now I'll cite a fellow whom I met out in Irvine. He had been the head of a computing center and he was temporarily on assignment as a special assistant to the president of the university. It was obvious he had a job with a great future. He took me into his office one time and showed me his method of getting letters done and how he took care of his correspondence. He pointed out how inefficient the secretary was. He kept all his letters stacked around there; he knew where everything was. And he would, on his word processor, get the letter out. He was bragging how marvelous it was and how he could get so much more work done without the secretary's interference. Well, behind his back, I talked to the secretary. The secretary said, Of course I can't help him; I don't get his mail. He won't give me the stuff to log in; I don't know where he puts it on the floor. Of course I can't help him. So I went to him and said, Look, if you adopt the present method and do what you can do single-handedly, you can go just that far and no farther than you can do single-handedly. If you will learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you. And, he never went any further. He had his personality defect of wanting total control and was not willing to recognize that you need the support of the system.

You find this happening again and again; good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system and take advantage of all the system has to offer. It has a lot, if you learn how to use it. It takes patience, but you can learn how to use the system pretty well, and you can learn how to get around it. After all, if you want a decision No, you just go to your boss and get a No easy. If you want to do something, don't ask, do it. Present him with an accomplished fact. Don't give him a chance to tell you No. But if you want a No, it's easy to get a No.

这是别人的故事吗？

Now you are going to tell me that somebody has to change the system. I agree; somebody's has to. Which do you want to be? The person who changes the system or the person who does first-class science? Which person is it that you want to be? Be clear, when you fight the system and struggle with it, what you are doing, how far to go out of amusement, and how much to waste your effort fighting the system. My advice is to let somebody else do it and you get on with becoming a first-class scientist. Very few of you have the ability to both reform the system and become a first-class scientist.

Be great or be best. 千万不要以为 you can do both。

Another fault is anger. Often a scientist becomes angry, and this is no way to handle things. Amusement, yes, anger, no. Anger is misdirected. You should follow and cooperate rather than struggle against the system all the time.

Another thing you should look for is the positive side of things instead of the negative.

一个高情商的人，能让周围的人都快乐。如果你不确定自己是否高情商，请在工作中保持愉快的心情就是了。