Mantidok Quotes & Sayings

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world. — Keith Devlin

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions. — Peter Drucker

Right now, this is what we are. Right now, this is working. Right now, there's no chance this is gonna end and we're gonna be over. So right now and for the foreseeable future, you ... are ... mine. — Kristen Ashley

It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion. — Gary Neville

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris

[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program. — Leonard Read

Ravenpaw dipped his head. "Even if we aren't Clanmates anymore, you will always have my friendship and loyalty." Fireheart blinked away the emotion that clouded his eyes. — Erin Hunter

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013. — Steve Sabol

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. — Alain De Botton

If you give up, it's over. But if you don't give up, the day will come when you'll be glad you didn't give up. — Masato

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America. — Louis Farrakhan

The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form. — John Scalzi

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents. — Eunhyuk