"The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information."

-- George Polya

#Giving Quotes #Pudding Quotes #Inventory Quotes

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.”
“You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.”
“I have become that mother I used to dread.”

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“In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.”
“There's a lot of things that I don't promote and I do promote mescaline. They open places in your mind that other things don't and if you're smiling, why not?”
“My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.”
“The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.”

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