Mallorca Files Quotes & Sayings

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas. — Seymour Papert

In many parts of India, chit funds address gaps left by the traditional banking sector. — R. Vaidyanathan

It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater ... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that. — Frank Pierson

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. — Roberto Benigni

the killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems to be authorised by the Law to arm himself for the Purposes aforesaid. — Stephen P. Halbrook

You've always made the mistake of being yourself. — Eugene Ionesco