"The computer is important, but not to mathematics."

-- Paul Halmos

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“There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.”
“After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.”
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.”
“It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”

Source : Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press
“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
“You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.”
“To be a great leader, first become a great person.”

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