January 2012
1 post
1 tag
“Always produce” is also a heuristic for finding the work you love. If you...”
– Paul Graham
Jan 19th
October 2011
15 posts
“We’re mathematicians. We don’t program.”
– Anonymous mathematician
Oct 19th
2 tags
“Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life”
– Nietzsche (via n9nlinear)
Oct 17th
9 notes
2 tags
“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
– Napoleon Hill
Oct 17th
1 note
3 tags
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
– Edwin Land
Oct 17th
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Oct 17th
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“Failure is just another part of the culture of innovation. Accept it and become...”
– Albert Yu
Oct 17th
8 notes
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to...”
– Thank you for everything, DMR
Oct 13th
“A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air. His...”
Oct 13th
Oct 11th
Oct 11th
981 notes
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than join to the navy.”
– Steve Jobs
Oct 9th
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Oct 8th
1 tag
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
– Bill Gates
Oct 3rd
1 tag
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
– Bill Gates
Oct 3rd
2 tags
“Life is not fair — get used to it!”
– Bill Gates
Oct 3rd
July 2011
1 post
1 tag
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow...”
– Niels Bohr 
Jul 28th
June 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Jun 24th
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
–  Author unknown
Jun 21st
1 tag
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
– Anonymous, popularized by Mark Twain
Jun 21st
2 tags
“The mathematician’s main reason for existence is to solve problems”
– Paul Halmos - 1980
Jun 6th
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“… mathematics: she gives life to our discoveries; she awakens the mind and...”
– Proclus
Jun 1st
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May 2011
1 post
2 tags
May 22nd
February 2011
1 post
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein.
Feb 27th
December 2010
1 post
Dec 17th
107 notes
October 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“[Mathematics is] “a language that can neither be read nor understood without...”
– Emblems of Mind, Edward Rothstein, Harper Perennial, 1996, page 15
Oct 8th
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...”
– Douglas Adams
Oct 3rd
July 2010
1 post
3 tags
Jul 6th
June 2010
22 posts
2 tags
Jun 26th
178 notes
2 tags
Jun 23rd
196 notes
2 tags
“The most practical solution is a good theory.”
– Albert Einstein
Jun 22nd
2 tags
Jun 18th
380 notes
2 tags
“I see it, but I don’t believe it.”
– Cantor to Dedekind 29 June 1877
Jun 15th
Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
105 notes
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“So, this is engineering, huh? Engineering, where the noble semi-skilled laborers...”
– Dr. Sheldon Cooper - Happy Day Engineers
Jun 8th
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Jun 8th
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“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make...”
– S. Grudder
Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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“If there is a God, he’s a great mathematician.”
– Paul Dirac
Jun 6th
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“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
– Paul Erdos
Jun 6th
2 tags
“God made the integers, all else is the work of man.”
– Leopold Kronecker
Jun 6th
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“Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.”
– Henri Poincare 
Jun 6th
2 tags
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
– Albert Einstein 
Jun 6th
1 tag
Jun 5th
8 notes
2 tags
“If you can’t solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can...”
– George Polya
Jun 5th