# Richard Hamming on great research
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/richard-hamming-on-great-research/4743
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**Created:** [July 8, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/richard-hamming-on-great-research/4743 "2017-07-08T22:56:06Z")
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### Author:  [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/richard-hamming-on-great-research/4743/1 "2017-07-08T22:56:06Z")
[Richard Hamming (1986)](http://holoborodko.com/pavel/downloads/richard%20hamming.%20you%20and%20your%20research.pdf)
_the first and last paragraphs:_
> The title of my talk is, ``You and Your Research.‘’ It is not about managing
> research, it is about how you individually do your research. I could give a talk on
> the other subject-- but it’s not, it’s about you. I’m not talking about ordinary runof-the-mill
> research; I’m talking about great research. And for the sake of
> describing great research I’ll occasionally say Nobel-Prize type of work. It doesn’t
> have to gain the Nobel Prize, but I mean those kinds of things which we perceive
> are significant things. Relativity, if you want, Shannon’s information theory, any
> number of outstanding theories-- that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.
> Go forth, then, and do great work!
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/richard-hamming-on-great-research/4743/2 "2017-07-09T06:36:48Z")
I don’t doubt you mean well, but this is not really on topic here (in the sense of having anything to do with Julia specifically). Perhaps start a blog.
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### Author:  [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/richard-hamming-on-great-research/4743/3 "2017-07-09T07:30:41Z")
admin: you are welcome to move this into the OffTopic topic