"With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part."

-- Richard Courant

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“I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.”

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“I just don't know how to date.”
“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.”
“IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.”
“I donâ€™t drink, I donâ€™t smoke, I donâ€™t do drugs. I kick people in the face for a living. So, if thatâ€™s something youâ€™re into â€” if you like watching people get kicked in the face â€” come see me. Iâ€™ll probably be your favorite wrestler”
“Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.”
“I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.”
“I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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