"The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same."

-- Paul Lockhart

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“To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.”
“You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.”
“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”
“People are much more important than superficial environments.”
“I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.”

Source : "'A heart that hurts is a heart that works. I will beat my anorexia'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.
“Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.”
“My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.”
“We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.”

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