"If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future)."

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

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“I am an ordinary person.”

Source : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
“The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.”

Source : Florence Littauer (2001). “It Takes So Little to Be Above Average”, Harvest House Pub
“Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.”
“The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.”
“I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.”
“If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”
“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”

Source : Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams
“Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.”

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