"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own.”

Source : "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

Source : John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
“I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.”
“I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.”
“The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.”
“You donâ€™t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. Thatâ€™s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.”
“Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.”
“Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.”

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