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I think, therefore I laugh.
Non-linear means it's hard to solve.
There is no rigorous definition of rigor.
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
The average human has one breast and one testicle.
Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.
Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.
The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.
In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.
All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.
There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.