A technical argument by a trusted author, which is hard to check and looks similar to arguments known to be correct, is hardly ever checked in detail. (Vladimir Voevodsky)

A technical argument by a trusted author, which is hard to check and looks similar to arguments known to be correct, is hardly ever checked in detail.

Vladimir Voevodsky

Related topics

argument author check correct detail hard known similar technical looks

Related quotes

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. View quote
Robert Benchley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
Luis Buñuel
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. View quote
Bertrand Russell