"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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“I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it. I definitely want to do that, because I tend to... when I put things in my own words, it comes out way better. It flows naturally, it just feels better. I can put some weight into the words. Even in comedy, it just comes better.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.78, Theatre Communications Group
“On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.”
“All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.”
“JS will be a real functional language.”
“TV is the place that writers want to be.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.”
“Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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