"Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard."

--

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

Edwin A. Abbott

#Numbers Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.”
“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.”
“Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.”
“Have you talked to North?" he said. "Yes," she said. "I asked him to get us cable." "I wish you weren't talking to him." "I'd talk to Satan to get cable," Andie said.”
“A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.”
“The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.”
“And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.”

You may also like:

Aimee Bender
Novelist
Ian Stewart
Professor
Jacob Abbott
Writer
Lynn Abbey
Author
Martin Sheen
Actor
Rudy Rucker
Computer Scientist
Thomas Banchoff
Mathematician
Thomas Becket
Saint
William Shakespeare
Poet