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Hofstadter

Hofstadter Law: is a statement regarding the difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity.
Crushing

Sometimes I can hear my bones
straining under the weight
of all the lives I’m not living.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Bundaberg
Benedictine

Emotions
“Johan Bollen, associate professor at Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, tells me how he discovered one possible edge: he’s done research that shows you can predict stock market moves from Twitter. You can measure public sentiment and then model it. ‘Society is driven by emotions, which it’s always been difficult to measure, collectively. But there are now programmes that can read text and measure it and give us a window into those collective emotions.'” via theguardian.
Misfit
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Apple Inc. motto
Transparency
What e’er
thou art,
act well
thy part.
~ Shakespeare
Response

One of the greatest struggles in research is determining what you really want to know. If you can distill your curiosity and define a few specifics, it will be far easier to design questions that elicit the responses you are seeking.

