Carl Pomerance (Carl Brnard Peomerance) Quotes

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

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• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • World
  • Women
  • Want

• I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Fights

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
  • Quality

• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Meal
  • Scheme
  • Effectively

• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Paris

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Soul
  • Deep
  • Rivers

• If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Chinese
  • Role

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Women
  • Learn
  • Honor

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Live
  • Challenge

• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Rules

• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thoughts
  • Spring
  • Actions

• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Color

• Obviously, in theatre, you work chronologically, so you kind of know where your emotions are supposed to be, and you're always on top of things, and as an actor, you always know what's coming next.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work
  • Theatre

• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Home
  • Earth

• The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • Women
  • Science
  • Interesting

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  

  Carl Pomerance
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