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
Thursday, November 26, 2020
David Snydacker posted an update.
— Facebook push notification*
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
That was all any of us could expect from democracy. Especially in big, multi-ethnic, multi-religious socieities like India and the United States. Not revolutionary leaps or major cultural overhauls. Not a fix for every social pathology or lasting answers for those in search of purpose and meaning in their lives.
— Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Me at my final reviews: this project blurs the line between interior and exterior
— @dank.lloyd.wright
Monday, November 23, 2020
It states the opinion that it thinks that there's a loop there. If you disagree with our algorithm though, you're right and the algorithm is wrong and that's kind of my fundamental philisophical view on the matter.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden, "2017 - Future of Genomic Medicine - Erez Lieberman Aiden," YouTube
Sunday, November 22, 2020
I'd spent my entire political career promoting civic participation as a cure for much of what ailed our democracy. I could hardly complain, I told myself, just because it was opposition to my agenda that was now spurring such passionate citizen involvment.
— Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Saturday, November 21, 2020
And realized they were being sincere. Much like the traders in the Santelli video, these Wall Street executives genuinely felt picked on. It wasn't just a ploy.
— Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Friday, November 20, 2020
Or we can just buy some loose leaf turkey or whatever you call it.
— Lily
Thursday, November 19, 2020
When my Grandpa came over for dinner one night I asked him to do this math problem and he accepted. What he first did was read the problem. Then his next step was to ask for a protractor.
— "Exploration of Problem-Solving Methods," old schoolwork
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
But rather by the need to justify the choices I had already made, or to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy of those who had achieved what I had not.
— Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The "real issue," as John Kerrigan, the man who forbade Ted from speaking, put it, "is that those who can escape escape."
— Neal Gabler, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour
Monday, November 16, 2020
I'm not tearing the subject down, I'm trying to build it up in the most perverse way possible so the viewer can take that next step on their own.
— Brad Troemel, "The "Is This Real?" Report"