"I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-"

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!”
“At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.”
“I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.”

Source : Charles Perrault (2015). “Riquet with the tuft”, p.17, "Издательство ""Проспект"""
“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”
“I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.”
“If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.”
“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”
“Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.”

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