"Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

-- John von Neumann

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“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”
“I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.”
“Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.”

Source : 1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
“Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.”
“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”
“I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt”

Source : Song: Senior Skip Day, Album: K.I.D.S., 2010
“I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.”

Source : "A Conversation With Cameron Sinclair, CEO of Architecture for Humanity". Interview with Daniel Fromson, www.theatlantic.com. March 21, 2011.

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