"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy."

-- Maxwell Rosenlicht

#Math Quotes #Lazy Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I'm a horrible public speaker.”
“Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.”
“Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.”
“Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.”

Source : "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.50
“The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.”
“Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.”
“The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there.”

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