"Mathematics is the music of reason."

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Source : "Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng". "Greater Than Code" with Rein Henrichs, www.greaterthancode.com. June 21, 2017.

Paul Lockhart

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“Live the moment for the moment.”
“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
“There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.”

Source : "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.
“Nothing worth having comes easy.”
“When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.”
“Jesus was a cross-dresser.”
“My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.”
“As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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