Brian Christian Quotes

Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.

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• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Independent
  • Yourself

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • She
  • Parents
  • Education

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Know
  • Hollywood
  • Heads

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Soul

• If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Friends
  • Mom
  • Point

• Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Influence

• Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

  

  David Rolf
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mathematics
  • Complicated
  • Counting

• When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Study
  • Psychology
  • Mathematics

• Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Mathematics
  • Object
  • Computer science