"The infinitely competent can be uncreative."

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Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

John Edensor Littlewood

#Mathematical Quotes

“Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."”
“Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.”
“Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.”
“We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.
“People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.”
“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”
“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”

Source : J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.277, e-artnow

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