"My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles."

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Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

Michael Loceff

#Math Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
“The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.”
“But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293
“For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.”

Source : William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.136
“What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.”
“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.”
“Fight your battles with words, not fists”

Source : Ann Martin, Ann M. Martin (2012). “Belle Teal”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.
“Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

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