"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week."

-- Eric Temple Bell

#Engineering Quotes #Symbolism Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.”
“I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop”
“When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape”
“I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.”
“The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.”
“But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.”
“It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.”

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