Ivars Quotes & Sayings

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation. — Ivars Peterson

I don't want to be sued and cursed-out later. — Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire

Dancing is just a vertical expression of a horizontal intent. - George McAllister — Kim Dare

His voice is a chain pulling me back to Earth. — R.A. Nelson

Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him . It was a way he could reset all the tangled mess in his mind. — Alex Morgan

It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. — Ivars Peterson

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world. — Joan Halifax

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated. — Cal Ripken Jr.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot. — Norah Jones

Nothing is possible without love. — Carl Jung

Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted. — Simon Jordan

In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever. — Rosie Perez

Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times. — Ivars Peterson

It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it. — Ally Condie

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Communist empires. But too often, what rushed in to replace the old order were empty hopes-not only in the false allure of state socialism, non-alignment and single-party rule, but also the false glories of romantic nationalism and narrow tribalism, and the false dawn of runaway individualism. — His Highness The Aga Khan

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces. — Ivars Peterson

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet. — Wynton Marsalis