"Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it."

-- Gil Kalai

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“Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.”
“There is no magic move or secret that creates victory but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious.”
“I feel like I know how to write plot.”

Source : "‘Enlightened,’‘Girls’ And ‘Homeland’: Mike White On How His HBO Show Measures Up" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.
“How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.”

Source : Donald A. Norman (2005). “Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things”, p.70, Basic Books
“All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.”
“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”
“I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.”
“One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.”

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