"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor."

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Bernard Williams

#Humor Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.”

Source : YouTube Channel "bfb72"/"Richard Stallman (as St IGNUcius) : Emacs vs Vi", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2008.
“I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.”
“As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'”
“The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.”
“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”
“I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.”
“They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.”
“Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.”

Source : Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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