Carl Pomerance (Carl Brnard Peomerance) Quotes

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

Carl Pomerance

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• Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Want
  • Audience

• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• Of course managers win ball games.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Win
  • Games
  • Ball

• We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Drama

• I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Will
  • I Can

• I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• There once was a brainy baboon,Who always breathed down a bassoon,For he said, 'It appearsThat in billions of yearsI shall certainly hit on a tune'.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Women
  • Guy

• If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Couple

• There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My father was a successful entrepreneur.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Father
  • Entrepreneur

• One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

  

  Gayle King
  • People

• I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Work
  • Science
  • Political

• I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

  

  David Wain
  • Summer

• By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Time
  • Free
  • Feeling

• I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Life
  • Big
  • Flights

• You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

  

  David Miliband
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind

• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Reason
  • Blood
  • Devil

• Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Brain

• Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

  

  Carl Pomerance