G. H. Hardy Quotes
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
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The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
