1984 Analysis Quotes & Sayings

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape.
[On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.] — Freeman Dyson

He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis. — Sandy Hall

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. — John Stuart Mill

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee. — William Shakespeare

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary. — Eric Gill