"I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes."

-- Daniel Tammet

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“Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
“You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.”
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.”
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . â€â€”Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clearâ€”â€œ. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.”
“Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.”

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