Bourbaki Math Quotes & Sayings

Outside were the eucalyptus trees, like lace against the sky. If it were only possible to lie against them, light and bodiless, sink into their softness, deeper and deeper, lost in them, buried, never come back again ... — Shirley Jackson

Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up? — Mina Khan

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on. — Markus Zusak

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization. — Henri Frederic Amiel

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story. — Seth Grahame-Smith

A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life. — Orson Scott Card

Oh, Kathleen!" sighed Nancy as the two went into the kitchen together. "Isn't mother the most interesting 'scolder' you ever listened to? I love to hear her do it, especially when somebody else is getting it. When it's I, I grow smaller and smaller, curling myself up like a little worm. Then when she has finished I squirm to the door and wriggle out. Other mothers say: 'If you don't, I shall tell your father!' 'Do as I tell you, and ask no questions.' 'I never heard of such behavior in my life!' 'Haven't you any sense of propriety?' 'If this happens again I shall have to do something desperate.' 'Leave the room at once,' and so on; but mother sets you to thinking."
"Mother doesn't really scold," Kathleen objected.
"No, but she shows you how wrong you are, just the same ... — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time ... by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders. — Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969. — Patti Smith

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. — Malcolm Gladwell

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power. — Pierre Trudeau

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. — John McCarthy

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out. — Jose Mourinho

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state — Slavoj Zizek