"I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms."

-- George Polya

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“The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.”
“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”
“I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.”
“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a ***** cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”
“My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.”

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“Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is”
“The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big is the lock?" Jonah laughed. "There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed.”
“Peopleâ€™s interest is in the product, not in its authorship,”

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