Conrad Wolfram Quotes
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I still have a young attitude.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
