"We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury."

-- Irving Kaplansky

#Philosophy Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, sometimes what keeps me up at night is just that I don't want to say good-bye to that day. And at the same time, I love to start the next day. I think I'm essentially a very unsettled person.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.”

Source : Speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010.
“I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.”

Source : Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press
“There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.”
“Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.”
“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
“No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.”

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