"There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another."

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Source : Keith J. Devlin (1988). “Mathematics: the new golden age”, Penguin Books

Keith Devlin

#Technology Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Littles Quotes

“More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.”

Source : Bruce Schneier (2006). “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World”, p.29, Springer Science & Business Media
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and orderâ€”willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
“Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but youâ€™re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they donâ€™t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.”
“Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.”
“As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2013). “The Golden Age”, p.30, Courier Corporation
“I feel positive about what I do. And, whoever is doing reggae, they have to have positive words and no negativity. They have to be positive. Yes, if you call it reggae, and it is negative words, it is not reggae.”
“The test of moral ideas is moral results.”
“War is Hell you can NOT refine it!”

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