"There are no answers, only cross references"

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Source : "Norbert Wiener 1894-1964". Book by Pesi R. Masani, Vita Mathematica, p. 337, 1990.

Norbert Wiener

#Answers Quotes #Crosses Quotes

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”
“If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.”
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
“For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.”
“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”

Source : John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie (1996). “John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie”
“Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."”
“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”

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