"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”
“Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.”
“Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.”
“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”
“When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.”
“I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.”

Source : "WhatsApp: The inside story". Interview with David Rowan, www.wired.co.uk. February 19, 2014.
“The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.”
“In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.”

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