Gil Kalai famous quotes

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.
-- Gil Kalai

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The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!
-- Gil Kalai

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Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.
-- Gil Kalai

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As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?
-- Gil Kalai

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I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.