"If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood."

-- J. K. Rowling

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“Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.”
“Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.”
“When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we're not paying attention! That's incredible. That's what hadÂ one chance in a million, and it already happened.”

Source : "Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin". Interview with Ben Popper, www.theverge.com. August 29, 2014.
“Every woman who writes is a survivor.”
“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”
“It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.”
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
“We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.”

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