# Great works are connected Recently, I read a book called *UNIX legend: A history and a memoir*, where an article named *"You and your research"* was highly recommened. So I just googled it and spent about two hours reading it. Now, my feeling just like my title said. There is no doubt that this article is excellent. Author Kernighan, shared his thoughts about how to make great research. As for me, I'm just a student now so I didn't get inspiration about research from it, but still gained something while reading it. 1. Luck doesn't cover everything. 2. One of the most important thing is courage when you set your mind to do something great. How much vigor you put depends your ceiling and how brave you are depends your floor. Ask yourself, "Whar are the important problems in your filed?". Then work on important things, keep emotionally invovled. Just as MIT said in their addmission criteria——"passion for difficulty". 3. Keep modesty. 4. Meeting a problem, think it carefully by yourself first, even woolgather. Then do everything you can to sovle it. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://blog.kaisuping.cn/technology/great-works-are-connected.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.