"I was x years old in the year x2."

-- Augustus De Morgan

#Years Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.”

Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.
“Never interrupt a lady when she is speaking to you, as if what you have to say is more important.”
“The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.”
“You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.”
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”
“Appearances matter â€” and remember to smile.”
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
“For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?”

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