"I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite."

-- Rozsa Peter

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“Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.”
“A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.”
“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

Source : "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.
“The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.”
“Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them”
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

Source : Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1
“If we have come up with a creative decision and somebody comes up with another idea, you do have to get into the depths of it and ask: "Is it a better idea? Or is it a different idea?" That can be hard. But that's the type of conversation the director and I will have, or as part of our creative groups. So with that in mind, it's hard to keep a budget in line. It's like in life, if you've ever built anything for the first time you're usually better at it the second time.”
“in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.”

Source : Steve Reich (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.53, Oxford University Press

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