"The author enters into his own death, writing begins."

“In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.”

Source : "The poet and the princess" by Gabriel García Márquez, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

“I have a voluptuous body. I am not one of those skinny girls. I like to enjoy life.”

“One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.”

“The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking - in the face of conflicting models, it seeks to generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a model that contains elements of each but is superior to both. So the goals are aligned completely.”

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“If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.”

“It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.”

“My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.”

“Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.”

Source : "Report of the evaluative committee for Econometrica". Paper by Paul Samuelson, Tjalling Koopmans, and Richard Stone. Econometrica - journal of the Econometric Society, pp. 141-146, 1954.