Slaughterhouse Five famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  • What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

  • Of course, experience strengthens one later.

  • Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You get the feeling that the result you have discovered is forever, because it's concrete. Other branches of mathematics are not so clear-cut. Functional analysis of infinite-dimensional spaces is never fully convincing; you don't get a feeling of having done an honest day's work. Don't get the wrong idea - combinatorics is not just putting balls into boxes. Counting finite sets can be a highbrow undertaking, with sophisticated techniques.

  • That's a headache waiting to happen.

  • Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

  • In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

  • You have to treat your employees like customers

  • I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.

  • Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.