"Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes."

-- Lipman Bers

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“We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.”
“I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.”
“Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.”
“If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.”
“A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, thatâ€™s one thing; but a lie to make life more interestingâ€”well, thatâ€™s entirely different.”
“The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.”
“The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.124, Springer Science & Business Media
“Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.”

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