"Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experiment and guesswork."

-- Paul Halmos

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“Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.”
“Comparison is the death of joy.”
“Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.”
“This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.”
“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.”
“Love leaves a memory nobody can take away from you.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 08, 2013
“What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.”
“The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.”

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