Noga Quotes & Sayings

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is. — Noga Alon

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly. — Leigh Brackett

I was once invited to the circuit court as an expert; during a break, one of my fellow experts drew my attention to the prosecutor's rude treatment of the defendants, among whom were two women of the intelligentsia. I don't think I was exaggerating in the least when I answered my colleague that this treatment was no more rude than that displayed towards each other by the authors of serious articles. Indeed, it is such rude treatment that one cannot speak of it without pain. Either they treat each other and the authors they criticize with excessive deference, forgetting all dignity, or the reverse, they handle them with greater boldness than I use in these notes, and in my thoughts, towards my future son-in-law Gnekker. — Anton Chekhov

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families. — Rosemarie DeWitt

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. — Swami Vivekananda

A goal that is set in your head is only a wish and holds as much form as smoke. — John Patrick Hickey

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. — Jose Luis Borges

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves. — Oliver Goldsmith

Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. — Noga Alon

Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them. — Peter Ackroyd

One of those big hands ran over his short hair and I swear my sex wept in gratitude at the sight. I was out of control. If he fondled his beard I might faint. — Anonymous

I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti. — Anthony Burgess

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results. — Colin Blakemore

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides. — Tom Brokaw

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Was this what the human reproductive urge was like, a pointless and powerful desire to replicate wonderful, irreplaceable me, even when the me in question was a monster who truly had no right to live among humans? That would certainly explain how a great many of the monumentally unpleasant cretins I encountered every day came to be. — Jeff Lindsay

I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?' — Noga Alon

In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today. — Noga Alon

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me. — Oprah Winfrey