Wolfram Alpha Quotes & Sayings

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black. — Ansel Adams

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus. — Lev Vygotsky

Since the rise of Islam, Jews had lived as a tolerated minority, or dhimmi, a status granted to Jews and Christians because they were monotheists. Despite a growing tendency in our own times to paint the premodern Islamic world as an Eden of religious tolerance in which Jews flourished, they always lived by the whims of fickle rulers and the mood of a hostile majority. In the eyes of that majority they were effete, lacking in honor, and powerless by definition, but as long as they accepted the supremacy of Muslims they were usually allowed to live and observe their faith and occasionally to prosper. — Matti Friedman

While researching this answer, I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got my IP address banned from Wolfram|Alpha for making too many requests. The ban-appeal form asked me to explain what task I was performing that necessitated so many queries. I wrote, "Calculating how many rental helium tanks you'd have to carry with you in order to inflate a balloon large enough to act as a parachute and slow your fall from a jet aircraft." Sorry, Wolfram. — Randall Munroe

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals. — Hosea Ballou

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival. — N. Scott Momaday

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! — George Colman The Elder

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another ... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge. — Georges St-Pierre

Alexa realized she'd always confessed everything to Maggie except for one event. The first time Nick kissed her. She'd known she loved him back then. Friendship turned to rivalry and then to a girlish crush. That first kiss twisted emotions so pure within her she believed it was love. Her heart beat for him, full of joy at the possibility of them being together, so she uttered the words, her voice echoing through the trees.
I love you. — Jennifer Probst

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. — Mickey Rooney

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. — James Salter