Quotes
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Richard Courant

"Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science."

-- Richard Courant

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“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.”
“I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.”
“There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).”

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“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.”
“I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.”

Source : Song: Drunk On You, Album: Tailgates & Tanlines, 2011
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
“The Self says â€˜I AMâ€™â€“as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means â€˜I AMâ€™), I AM is the way and the truth and the lifeâ€“but the ego says â€˜I am thisâ€™ or â€˜I am that,â€™ thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)”
“I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.”

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