Wednesday, December 16, 2020
A thing so large that no one else cared to tackle it.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
And, of course, it was art as well, a subjective look, by the very nature of how and where he pointed the camera.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Monday, December 14, 2020
And one part mercenary, for both men knew their access to this lost world could fill a lecture hall later.
— Edward Curtis via Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Best kept secret.
— Lily on the fact that she likes Steampunk
Saturday, December 12, 2020
It is essentially like my vehicle for experiencing all of the wide spectrum of emotions that we all have. You know, it's my vehicle for exploring fear. it's my vehicle for exploring achievement and sucess and ego and confidence any you know, I think you could really use anything in order to expereince and explore those emotions, but everyone I think in some ways is trying to find what their vehicle is to explore those emotions.
— Emily Harrington, "The Joe Rogan Experience #1571 - Emily Harrington"
Friday, December 11, 2020
It's really just that's what people gravitate towards unfortunately... They figured out how humans work but they're not trying to divide us... The misconception is that they're devising these algorithms to make sure people fight.
— Joe Rogan, "The Joe Rogan Experience #1577 - Terry Virts"
Thursday, December 10, 2020
By being not that designed, it suggests that it's just news.
— Andrew Sondern
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Jackson again referred to Ely as a friend—in politics, often a term that should put one on guard.
— Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
It's like a copy and paste virus.
— Eric on typos and errors that proliferate by copy and paste
Monday, December 7, 2020
Almost like the first time when you see your butt in a three way mirror when you're in 7th grade.
— William Wegman, "YBF #3: WILLIAM WEGMAN Interview"
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Everything old shall now become new.
— Kanye West, "Selah," JESUS IS KING
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Well I witnessed death so it's the least they can do.
— Lily on getting coupons for free snacks at the hospital
Friday, December 4, 2020
For those who have biographies written about them, the System by definition works.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Thursday, December 3, 2020
What philosophers or poets could say about the creative process in mathematics, Hardy felt, was next to nothing. But Hadamard was a mathematician, and a great one.... What he had to say about "invention in the mathematical field" was worth listenting to.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
No, he didn't want them. Because, he said, once caught in the web of Ramanujan's bewitching theorems, he would spend the rest of his life trying to prove them and never discover anything of his own.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Like everything else Hardy ever wrote, his textbook was readable.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Monday, November 30, 2020
The best situations are always exceptions.
— D*
Sunday, November 29, 2020
In science and medicine, immortality is having something—a treatment, a unit of measurment, a theory—named after you. So, too, in mathematics.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Saturday, November 28, 2020
There were gods for every purpose, to suit any frame of mind, any mood, any psyche, any state or station of life. In taking on different forms, God became formless; in different names, nameless.
— Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Friday, November 27, 2020
I presented him with a tape measure I had mounted on a plaque.
— Barack Obama on gift he gave to Bill McRaven referencing the use of a Navy Seal who laid down on the floor as a reference to measure the height of Osama bin Laden after he had been killed, A Promised Land
