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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
— Robert Walpole
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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
My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.
— Lady Gaga
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
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
Those with the least always lose the most in war.
— Joe Abercrombie
Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.
— Mitch Hedberg
Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.
— Kenny Marchant
A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.
— Leah Stewart
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
— David Attenborough
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
He went in with his shuds stowing.
— Gary Neville
I actually fall for guys when they're a bit all over me!
— Mollie King
How did he do it? He must be a genius!
— Gian-Carlo Rota
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Tis my will that thou and he shall die by my hand. Thou hast but to choose the manner of thy death." "Old age," Cimorene said promptly. "Mock
— Patricia C. Wrede
The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
