"You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about."

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Source : "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

Marcus du Sautoy

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“The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.”
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple â€œfirstâ€ things.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.
“You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.”
“What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.”
“As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.”
“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.21, City Lights Books
“A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“This is the period from ages 60 to 90 in which many people have a new sense of freedom, kids grown up, retired from formal work etc., about their possibilities. They can either crown a career, start something new, or launch themselves into a meaningful social enterprise. A phase of life that was once seen as an end can now more accurately be enjoyed as a beginning.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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