"This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even profound. The authors, writing for nonspecialists, take pains to explain technical ideas in nontechnical language, and the book should interest general readers as well as a large mathematical audience."

-- Steven G. Krantz

#Pain Quotes #Hate Quotes #Book Quotes

“I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me,”
“What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.”
“Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.”
“People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.”
“Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.”
“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.”

Source : "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
“Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing”

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