In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. – Hermann Hankel
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. – Carl Sandburg
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. – Aristotle
You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like I still go to the projects. Im like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think its so cool? – Jay-Z