William Thurston Quotes
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
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-the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.
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All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
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I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
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Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
