". . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world."

-- George Dantzig

#Interesting Quotes #Research Quotes #World Quotes

“Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.”
“The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.”
“The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.”
“I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.”
“The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.”
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
“Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.145, Macmillan
“The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.”

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