David Mumford Quotes
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
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The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
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Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
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I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
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Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
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I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.
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I've already told so many people my stories.
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I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.
