"Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations."

-- Paul Lockhart

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“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”

Source : Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.31, SCB Distributors
“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.”
“My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.”
“I think the future of food is in insects.”
“I like to sleep so much that I wake up exhausted from sleeping so hard.”
“Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.”
“True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.”
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.”

Source : "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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