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You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.
— Terence Tao
Tags: boring, next, focus, you

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Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.
— Terence Tao
Tags: amazing, research, you, work
In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.
— Terence Tao
Tags: united-states, university, start, new
What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.
— Terence Tao
Tags: connection, real, world, me
The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.
— Terence Tao
Tags: quite, places, some, good
When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook to work on to quieten me down.
— Terence Tao
Tags: parents, night, me, work
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