Stechschulte William Quotes & Sayings

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next. — Max More

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world. — Jodie Foster

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. — Tom Wolfe

[A rife platoon's] members must care for one another. Its leaders must cherish the men in very fire team and squad. For a rifleman, a leader's misjudgment, ignorance or inexperience can be fatal - no second chances. No rerunning the exercise until you get it right. When the word 'go' is given, there is no turning back from the consequences. It is the monstrous burden of command..."
-Bernard "Mick" Trainor — James Brady

We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it". — John Edensor Littlewood