"It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock."

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Source : James Joseph Sylvester (2008). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.214, American Mathematical Soc.

James Joseph Sylvester

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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€”or to be indistinguishable fromâ€”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

Source : "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.
“I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.”
“To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.”
“This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.”
“Expenditures rise to meet income.”

Source : The Law and the Profits ch. 1 (1960)
“But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock.”
“I support all Australian films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.”

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