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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.
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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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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.
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There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown!
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A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.
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Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
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Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
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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.
