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

-- Gil Kalai

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“All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.”
“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.”
“What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.”
“Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.”

Source : "Gorbachevism". Book by Alexander Zinoviev, 32nd article, 1988.
“A fighter's dream is to win a world title and gain financial stability. But what is happening to me now is the most humbling experience of my life. It is a great honor for me to be the face of my people and to let everyone know we are a small but mighty country. I have great pride for all of the Filipinos living throughout the world and it is these people that I fight for each and every time I step into the ring.”
“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”
“Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.”
“Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.”

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