Feifer Surface Quotes & Sayings

If he would just work with pure ideas like a proper mathematician he could go as fast as thought. As it happens, Alan has become fascinated by the incarnations of pure ideas in the physical world. The underlying math of the universe is like the light streaming in through the window. Alan is not satisfied with merely knowing that it streams in. He blows smoke into the air to make the light visible. He sits in meadows gazing at pine cones and flowers, tracing the mathematical patterns in their structure, and he dreams about electron winds blowing over the glowing filaments and screens of radio tubes, and, in their surges and eddies, capturing something of what is going on in his own brain. Turing is neither a mortal nor a god. He is Antaeus. That he bridges the mathematical and physical worlds is his strength and his weakness. — Neal Stephenson

Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes. — Vladimir Nabokov

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. — Diane Frolov

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating. — Dominika Cibulkova

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. — H.R. Giger

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. — Boozoo Chavis