Derpotato Quotes & Sayings

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied
that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege. — Leonard Cohen

In the approach to virtue there are many steps. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. — Jerry Brown

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. — Rumi

Girls leave school crammed full of interesting historical facts and elegant Spanish subjunctives, so proud of their ability to study hard and get the best grades. But somewhere between the classroom and the cubicle, the rules change and they don't understand it. They slam into a world of work that doesn't reward them for perfect spelling and exquisite manners. — Katty Kay

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation — Henry David Thoreau

I am not a man, I am dynamite — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much! — Wilder Penfield

I fling unconscious tendrils of belief, like slender green threads, across statements such as these, statements made so unequivocally, which have no tone or shadow of tentativeness. I build them into the mosaic of my world. I allow my universe to change in minute, significant ways, on the basis of things you have said to me, of my trust in you. — Adrienne Rich

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. — Elizabeth McGovern