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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak. — Demetri Martin

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life. — Deepak Chopra

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. — Herb Alpert

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. — Gian-Carlo Rota

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota

A technique is a trick that works. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Never regret trying anything that makes you happy, even if it doesn't make sense to those around you. — Kristen Middleton

Success follows the hardworking, failure the hardly working. — Emmanuel Aluko

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home. — Jenn Granneman

The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well. — Lauren Holiday

That girl can barely spell her name. — Tupac Shakur

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences? — Gian-Carlo Rota

Rota's personality is compatible with mine. — Stanislaw Ulam

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable. — Michael Bloomberg

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. — Hesketh Pearson

How did he do it? He must be a genius! — Gian-Carlo Rota

Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot. — Wayne Gretzky

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota