"What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns..."

-- Lynn Steen

#Knowledge Quotes #Math Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”
“I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.”

Source : "Best", December 1979.
“We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.”

Source : "Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level" By Leslie Kaufman, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2014.
“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.”
“It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.”
“I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.”
“We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.”
“In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. â€œNo more bullshit,â€ he said against her lips. â€œI want you. I think Iâ€™ve always wanted you.”

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