When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.
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And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
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What this quote means
Small actions can lead to significant changes in perspective over time.
Roger Penrose highlights the importance of small, seemingly insignificant actions or thoughts that, over time, can lead an individual away from conventional thinking and into new territories of understanding. This suggests that embracing these 'little things' can foster unique perspectives and innovations that diverge from the mainstream.
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Example use cases
During a motivational speech about innovation, one could reference this quote to encourage unique thinking.
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I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
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Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
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