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Author:Spike Jonze

“Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.”

Wells Energy Language Study Alive Advice Draws Scientist Curiosity Boring Math Flames Nourishment Exam

Author:Michio Kaku

“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”

Reading Discipline Cooking Math Chemistry Gardening Reading History

Author:David Chang

“The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.”

Math Flaws Imperfection Relative Shifting Liquid Austerity Exactitude

Author:Steven Weber

“Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.”

Asks Hell Math Sixty

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.”

Ifs Writing Enjoy Chance Novel Math

Author:Mark Haddon

“With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.”

Trying Father Numbers Math

Author:Chris Gethard

“I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.”

Real Numbers Dad My Dad Math

Author:Hulk Hogan

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.”

Pure Math Enjoyed Formulas Discovering

Author:Jerry McNerney

“I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.”

Years Kind Math

Author:Jerry McNerney

“All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.”

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Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.”

Children Art Today School Social Study Sacrifice Subjects Math Social Studies Physical Education

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.”

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Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.”

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Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.”

Home Math Pace Geography Schooling

Author:Q'orianka Kilcher

“It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.”

Hard Use School High School Math What You Love

Author:Serge Haroche

“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."”

Thinking Children Common Steps Students Claims Critical Math Core Initiative Critical Thinking Step Up Common Core Step Children

Author:David Harsanyi

“Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.”

Beautiful Math Sheer Really Beautiful

Author:Shane Carruth

“I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.”

Feels Writing Different Together Information Complexes Math Requirements Subtext

Author:Shane Carruth

“I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.”

School Degrees Math Texas Software Engineers Glamorous Good School

Author:Shane Carruth

“My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.”

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Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.”

“When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.”

Thinking Writing I Can Reason Math Conclusion Fascinated Because I Can

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.”

People Needs Should Education Teaching Math Handle Straightforward Gateways

Author:Edward de Bono

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”

Thinking Way Science Numbers Pure Mathematics Math

Book:All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Source: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

“Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.”

Should Science Jokes Ideals Should Have Mathematics Math Proof

Author:Ronald Graham

“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”

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Author:Jim Propp

“Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?”

Thinking Today Science Mathematics Math

Author:Philip J. Hanlon

“... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.”

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Author:John Horton Conway

“Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.”

Important Done Whole Alive Math

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”

Source: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

“The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.”

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Author:Frank Scoblete

“I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.”

Thinking Made Together Found Fun Answers Pieces Fields Deserve Asking Response Math Mood Ridicule

Author:Ed Helms

“Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.”

Christian Community Simple Walks Essentials Math Disciple Day To Day

Book:Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

Source: Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms”

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.”

Thinking Wells Littles Important Government Can Do Members Thirds Congress Work Out Math Noise Wheels Branches Hmmm Branches Of Government

Author:Wesley Pruden

“The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.”

Needs Years Humans Real Computer Machines Math Fifty Transition Efficient Smooth Mathematician Real Work

Author:Doron Zeilberger

“Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.”

Games Design Math Interior Design Decorating

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.”

Answers Teacher Subjects Math Convince

Author:Calvin Trillin

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