“I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.” Quote by Yohji Yamamoto
“Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.” KnowsDreamEnemySonShadowFleshYour DreamsMy Son Book:The Devil's Arithmetic Source: The Devil's Arithmetic
“I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.” WellsSaidWholeOrderArmyReportsCaptured Author:Alvin C. York
“I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.” FightingSidesCuttingGunMachinesTouchedBulletsMachine Guns Author:Alvin C. York
“Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.” InterestingFeetMathematicsAlgorithms Author:Doron Zeilberger
“Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.” HarderMathematicsProgramming Author:Doron Zeilberger
“Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.” BookMathematicsGod Exists Author:Doron Zeilberger
“Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.” WorldRealEvilComputerModelsIntuitionDuesDigitalReal WorldConventionalInnateMisleadFooledConventional WisdomNecessary EvilDiscrete Author:Doron Zeilberger
“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.” TryingIdeasRealProblemSeemsStudyLimitsVersionsGood IdeasToysSophisticatedReal Things Author:Doron Zeilberger
“Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.” PerfectImpossibleObjectsIdealsLet MeAbsolutesMathematicsZeroTemperatureVacuums Author:Doron Zeilberger
“The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.” CultureConflictSoviet Author:Andrei Zhdanov