"Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there."

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Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd

Steven Strogatz

#Zero Quotes #Derivatives Quotes #Extremes Quotes

“Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.”
“We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.”
“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.”

Source : West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)
“You canâ€™t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?â€ Samâ€™s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. â€œYou canâ€™t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?”
“I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.”
“I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Men in Black”, p.123, Open Road Media
“Some pushers are way better than others.”
“Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.”

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