"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality"

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Source : "Hilbert". Book by Constance Reid, 1970.

David Hilbert

#Art Quotes #Special Quotes #Germs Quotes

“The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.”
“Movies are not a growth business,”

Source : "Jeff Shell, Les Moonves Zing Katzenberg: Movies 'Tremendous Growth Business'" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2014.
“In fact, there is no business; there are only people. Business exists only *among* people and *for* people.Seems simple enough, and it applies to every aspect of business, but not enough businesspeople seem to get it.Reading the economic forecasts and the indicators and the ratios and the rates for this or that, someone from another planet might actually believe that there really are invisible hands at work in the marketplace.”
“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
“More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.”

Source : Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional
“I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.”
“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”
“When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.”

Source : "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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