"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

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John von Neumann

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“Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
“There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.”
“Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful wayâ€¦”
“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
“Successful women don't sleep until noon.”
“Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.”

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