Carl Benjamin Boyer Quotes

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Carl Benjamin Boyer

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• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Friends
  • American
  • Man

• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Never
  • Used
  • Presence

• When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Character
  • Morning
  • Voice

• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Ego
  • Point

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Books
  • Written

• If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Help
  • You
  • Got

• Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Goals

• When we're recording, I always dress up.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Up

• I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Why

• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Education
  • Democracy

• Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • School
  • May
  • High

• We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Single

• Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

  

  Carl Benjamin Boyer
  • Culture
  • Mathematics
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