"I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable."

-- Richard Hamming

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“One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, you know, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!”

Source : "Inaugural MMA Fight Pit Event: An Interview with Main Event Houston Alexander". Interview with Gregory Chase, bleacherreport.com. August 9, 2011.
“I canâ€™t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”
“Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.”
“Leadership is having a point of view.”
“I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.”
“Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.”
“Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.”

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