“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
“I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 5, Harvard Years, p. 96
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