"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."

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Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1978, Рипол Классик

James R Newman

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“People will call you anything. It's up to you either to pick up the phone or not.”
“My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.”

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“Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.”
“He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.”
“If I were a medical doctor, I would probably be a dermatologist, because they have great work-life balance. Not because I'm passionate about people's skin. They have great hours. I have friends who are dermatologists, and they tell me it's great.”

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“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.”
“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.”
“Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.”

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