"[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day."

-- Donald Knuth

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“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
“We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb talks to the cast of A Dirty Shame!". movieweb.com. September 13, 2004.
“Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.”

Source : Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press
“All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.”
“My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.”
“And the Lord said you got to rise Up!”
“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”
“THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?”

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