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

• 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

• I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

  

  Lisa Caputo
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Great
  • History
  • Beautiful

• Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

  

  Lee Tergesen
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Edgy

• To be honest with you, I didn't really read a lot of DC comics as a kid, but I was obsessed with Batman and still am.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Batman

• children's art is completely opposed to what interests me, because it's an effort to assimilate culture..

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Children
  • Art
  • Culture

• When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

  

  Karen Marie Moning
  • Speak
  • Refuse
  • Deceit

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

  

  Carl Pomerance