"New ideas often need old buildings."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Ideas Quotes #Needs Quotes #Building Quotes

“There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.”
“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....”
“Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.”
“But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.”
“There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.”
“The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.”

Source : Reuben Fine (1967). “The psychology of the chess player”
“I'm more likely to not invite someone back for not talking. If someone talks a lot, I can usually shut them up and control them. But with people who don't talk, if they don't really want to talk, they probably shouldn't be on this show, and that's fine. They're talented people with things to say, but sometimes people say what they have to say through other means than arguing.”
“Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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