"Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta."

-- Hermann Weyl

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“It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”
“There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.”

Source : "Ron Reagan calls Iraq war unnecessary and optional". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.
“Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.”
“Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.”
“But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.”
“When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.”
“One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.”

Source : Pierre Bayle, Pierre Des Maizeaux, Alexis Gaudin, Anthelme Tricaud (1736). “The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.671

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