"Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack."

Source : "Ramsey Theory". Ronald L. Graham and Joel H. Spencer, "Scientific American", July 1990.

Paul Erdos

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“It’s the same as always. He doesn’t pursue those who leave, and ignores those who come.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kagura". Anime series "Gin Tama" (Episode 2: "You guys!! Do you even have a silver soul?" (Pilot), 2006), (2005 - ).
“The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.”

Source : David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.”
“Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.”

Source : Catchphrase, used at the end of the CBS Evening News (1962-81).
“I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.”
“True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.
“by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.”
“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.”

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