"I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer."

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

Source : "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming" by George Dantzig, Mathematical programming: the state of the art, p. 78-86, 1983.

“To be great, art has to point somewhere.”

“We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

“fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

“Into The Wild had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and Unforgiven is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.”

“The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.”

Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

“There is no other love like a mother's love for her child,”

Source : Song: Goodbye's, Album: A New Day Has Come, 2002

“You can paint your soul with any medium.”