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.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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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.
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I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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My father was a successful entrepreneur.
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One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.
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I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
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Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.
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Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.
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'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.'
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate and have a good basic regime. This is why one of my goals has always been to create a skincare line.
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Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
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Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.
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You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
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Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
