"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

#Morning Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.”

Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.21, Penguin
“I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.”
“I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.”
“We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...”
“So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
“I'm like an owl... I don't give a HOOT!”

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