"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

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Source : Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

John von Neumann

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“[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.”
“The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.”

Source : "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“I was born 10 years old.”
“Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.”
“Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.”
“Fact: If you donâ€™t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.”
“I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.”

Source : Cheryl Rainfield (2013). “Stained”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

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