"The Handmaiden of the Sciences."

-- Eric Temple Bell

#Mathematical Quotes

“Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.”

Source : "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.
“The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves”
“A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.”
“We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.”
“It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.”
“If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.”
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

Source : "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.
“I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

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