Askey Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the creative industry, when you're confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Big Idea, always work with the most talented, innovative mind available. Hopefully ... that's you. — George Lois

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal.
(after signing Ron Yeats) — Bill Shankly

When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2. — Richard Askey

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do. — Richard Askey

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function. — Richard Askey

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. — Roni Askey-Doran

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. — Henry Ward Beecher

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. — Roni Askey-Doran

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me. — Michelle M. Pillow

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful. — C. JoyBell C.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself. — Henry David Thoreau

Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels. — Richard Askey

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free. — Nelson Mandela

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way. — Rupert Graves

Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century. — Richard Askey

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC. — John Lennon

...people don't think in churches.

[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce