William Thurston Quotes
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
William Thurston
Quotes to Explore
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
Donald Glover
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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
Carl Andre
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
Lauren Graham
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Haim Ginott
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Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
Glenn Frey
The Eagles
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
Oscar Wilde
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A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.
Ian Bogost
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
Donald Miller
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
William Hazlitt
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Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.
Urvashi Vaid
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I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
Michael McMillian
