Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. – Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"
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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. – Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. – Hilda Phoebe Hudson
Ive learned theres a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. – James Chanos
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden
Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will. – Anon.